French cruiser Duguay-Trouin (1923)

Duguay-Trouin
History
France
Name	Duguay-Trouin
Namesake	René Duguay-Trouin
Builder	Arsenal de Brest
Laid down	4 August 1922
Launched	14 August 1923
Commissioned	2 November 1926
Decommissioned	19 March 1952
Fate	Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type	Duguay-Trouin-class cruiser
Displacement	7,249 tons (standard) 9350 tons (full load)
Length	181.30 m (594 ft 10 in) (o/a)
Beam	17.50 m (57 ft 5 in)
Draught	6.14 m (20 ft 2 in), 6.30 m (20 ft 8 in) (full load)
Installed power	8 Guyot boilers 102,000 shp (76,000 kW)
Propulsion	4 shafts; 4 geared turbines
Speed	33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Range	3,000 nautical miles (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	27 officers, 551 sailors
Armament	Initial 4 × twin 155 mm (6.1 in) guns 4 × single 75 mm (3 in) AA guns 4 × triple 550 mm (21.7 in) torpedo tubes 1944 refit[1] 4 × twin 155 mm guns 4 × single 75 mm AA guns 3 × twin 40 mm (1.6 in) AA guns 20 × single 20 mm (0.8 in) AA guns
Armour	Deck: 20 mm (0.8 in) Magazine box: 30 mm (1.2 in) Turrets and conning tower: 30 mm (1.2 in)
Aircraft carried	2 × floatplanes
Aviation facilities	1 × catapult

Duguay-Trouin was the lead ship of her class of French light cruisers, launched in the early 1920s. She was named after René Duguay-Trouin. She patrolled the Mediterranean during the Spanish Civil War, and after the outbreak of the Second World War, she hunted Nazi pocket battleships before being interned after the Fall of France and until 1943. She then took part in Allied operations in the Mediterranean, supporting the Provence Landings and shelling Nazi and Fascist troops on the coasts of Italy until the end of the war. Duguay-Trouin then took part in the decolonisation wars in Algeria, and in Indochina.