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Suffren class cruiser

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Name
  
Suffren class

Preceded by
  
Duquesne class

Completed
  
4

Operators
  
French Navy

Succeeded by
  
Algérie

Lost
  
3

Suffren-class cruiser

The Suffren class was a class of four heavy cruisers built for the French Navy in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

Ships

The four ships of the class were:

  • Colbert, scuttled at Toulon during the scuttling of 27 November 1942.
  • Dupleix, scuttled at Toulon on 27 November 1942 to prevent her capture by the Germans and raised by the Italians on 3 July 1943. Sunk again during an Allied air raid in 1944.
  • Foch, scuttled at Toulon on 27 November 1942.
  • Suffren, disarmed and interned in Egypt by the British on 22 June 1940. Rejoined the Allies and rearmed on 30 May 1943. Decommissioned on 1 October 1947. Scrapped in 1974.

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