French cruiser Marseillaise (1935)
Service
- as Marseillaise10 October 1937 — 27 November 19421,183 days of the war
- Name
- Marseillaise
- Pennant / hull number
- 1935
- Namesake
- La Marseillaise
- Builder
- Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Nantes
- Laid down
- 23 October 1933
- Launched
- 17 July 1935
- Commissioned
- 10 October 1937
- Fate
- Scuttled 27 November 1942, Scrapped 1946-1947 (1942)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 7,600 long tons (7,722 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 9,120 long tons (9,266 t)
- Length
- 179 m (587.3 ft)
- Beam
- 17.5 m (57.4 ft)
- Draught
- 5.35 m (17.6 ft)
- Speed
- 31 knots (57.4 km/h, 35.7 mph)
- Range
- 7,000 nmi (12,964 km)
- Complement
- 540
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
Marseillaise was a La Galissonnière-class cruiser of the Marine Nationale. She carried the pennant number 1935. The ship was named after La Marseillaise. Her keel was laid at Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Nantes on 23 October 1933. She entered service on 10 October 1937, having been launched on 17 July 1935.
Eight ships of the class were built. The class followed the French cruiser Émile Bertin and was succeeded by the French cruiser De Grasse (C610).
She displaced 7,600 long tons standard and 9,120 long tons at full load. She measured 179 m (587 ft) long with a beam of 17.5 m (57 ft). Her designed speed was 31 knots, and she carried a complement of 540.
Her main battery was nine 152 mm (6.0 in) guns. Her belt armour was 105 mm (4.1 in) and her deck 38 mm.
She was in commission for 1,183 days of the Second World War.
She was scuttled on 27 November 1942. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2-shaft Parsons single reduction geared turbines
- 4 Indret boilers
- 84000 shp
- Armament
- 9 × 152 mm/55 guns (3 × 3)
- 8 × 90 mm AA (4 × 2)
- 8 × 37 mm light AA (4 × 2)
- 12 × 13.2 mm light AA (4 × 3)
- 4 × 550 mm torpedo tubes (2 × 2)
- Armour
- Main belt: 105 mm
- End bulkheads: 30 mm
- Sides: 120 mm
- Deck: 38 mm
- Turrets: 100 mm
- Conning tower: 95 mm
- Aircraft
- up to 4 GL-832, later 2 Loire 130 flying boats
- 1 catapult
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from French cruiser Marseillaise (1935) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — postcard — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons