French cruiser Colbert (1928)
Service
- as Colbert11 November 1929 — 27 November 19421,183 days of the war
- Name
- Colbert
- Pennant / hull number
- 1928
- Namesake
- Jean Baptiste Colbert
- Builder
- Arsenal de Brest
- Laid down
- 12 June 1927
- Launched
- 20 April 1928
- Commissioned
- 11 November 1929
- Fate
- Scrapped 1948 (1948)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 10,000 long tons (10,160 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 12,928 long tons (13,135 t)
- Length
- 194 m (636.5 ft) OA
- Beam
- 19.26 m (63.2 ft)
- Draught
- 6.51 m (21.4 ft)
- Speed
- 32 knots (59.3 km/h, 36.8 mph)
- Range
- 4,600 nmi (8,519 km)
- Complement
- 773
- Main gun
- 203 mm (8 in)
Colbert was a light cruiser of the Suffren-class cruiser, operated by the Marine Nationale. She carried the pennant number 1928. She was named for Jean Baptiste Colbert. Arsenal de Brest laid her keel on 12 June 1927. She entered service on 11 November 1929, having been launched on 20 April 1928.
Four ships of the class were built. The class followed the Duquesne-class cruiser and was succeeded by the French cruiser Algérie.
She displaced 10,000 long tons standard and 12,928 long tons at full load. She measured 194 m (636 ft) long with a beam of 19.3 m (63 ft). Her designed speed was 32 knots, and she carried a complement of 773.
Her main battery was eight 203 mm (8.0 in) guns. Her belt armour was 50 mm (2.0 in) and her deck 25 mm. She carried three aircraft. Her machinery developed 8 shp.
She was in commission for 1,183 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in 1948.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 3-shaft Rateau-Bretagne geared steam turbines
- Power
- 6 Guyot du Temple boilers, 20 kg/cm2 (215°) plus two small coal/oil fired boilers
- 88768.8 shp
- Armament
- Initial
- 8 × 203 mm/50 guns (4 × 2)
- 8 × 90 mm/50 AA guns (8 × 1)
- 6 × 37 mm light AA guns (6 × 1)
- 12 × 13.2 mm AA machine guns (4 × 3)
- 6 × 550 mm torpedo tubes (2 × 3)
- 1941 refit
- 8 × 203 mm/50 guns (4 × 2)
- 8 × 90 mm/50 AA guns (8 × 1)
- 12 × 37 mm light AA guns (12 × 1)
- 32 × 13.2 mm AA machine guns (7 x 4, 2 × 2)
- 4 × 8 mm AA machine guns (4 × 1)
- 6 × 550 mm torpedo tubes (2 × 3)
- Armour
- Belt: 50 mm
- Deck: 25 mm
- Turrets and conning tower: 30 mm
- Magazine box 50 mm sides with 20 mm crowns
- Aircraft
- 3 GL-810 then Loire-Nieuport 130
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from French cruiser Colbert (1928) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: G.Garitan — Own work — CC BY-SA 4.0 — Wikimedia Commons