Suffren class cruiser

Suffren class cruiser

The Suffren class was a class of 4 heavy cruisers built for the French Navy in the late 1920s - early 1930s.

The ships were:
* "Colbert", scuttled at Toulon on 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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