Dunkerque Class Battleships Class Overview

Dimensions, machinery and performance
Length:
703' 7"
Engines:
4 Rateau geared steam turbines
Beam:
102'
Boilers:
6 Indret (oil fired)
Draft:
28' std. / 31' full
Shafts:
4
Displacement:
26,500 std. / 35,500 full
HP:
112,500 (136,900 trials)
Speed:
29.5 knots (31.5 trials)
Crew:
1,381
Range:
7,500 NM@ 15 knots


Armament as built
Number Carried
Type
Arrangement
Maximum Range / Ceiling
8
13"/50 (330mm)
2 quadruple turrets
(all forward)
45,604 yards @ 35° (25.9 miles)
1,235 lb. AP shell
Rate of fire 3 RPM

16
5.1"/45 (130mm)
3 quadruple turrets
2 twin turrets
22,750 yards @ 45° (12.9 miles)
70.77 lb HE shell
AA ceiling 40'000' @ 75°
(64.9 lb. AA shell)
Rate of fire 10-15 RPM

8
1.46"/50 (37mm) AA
4 twin mounts
7,850 yards @ 45° (4 miles)
AA ceiling N/A (elevation 80°)
1.598 lb. HE shell
Rate of fire 30-42 RPM

32
0.52"/76 (13.2mm)
Oerlikon machine guns
single mounts
AA ceiling 13,780'
1.8 oz. bullet
Rate of fire 200 RPM

4
Aircraft (1 catapult)


Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Arsenal de Brest
Brest, France

Oct. 2, 1935
May 1, 1937
Fate
Scuttled Nov. 27, 1942 at Toulon, France. In Aug. 1945 the wreck was raised
and towed to a storage location, sold in 1958 and scrapped.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Chantiers de L'Atlantique
(Penhoet-Loire)
St. Nazaire, France

Dec. 12, 1936
Jan. 1939
Fate
Sold May 27, 1955 and scraped.
(Scuttled at Toulon, France Nov. 27, 1942, raised by Italians July 1943.
Sunk by Allied aircraft Aug. 18, 1944)



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