RICHELIEU IN DOCK 41

RICHELIEU A FRENCH BATTLESHIP 1940

FWD PORT QTR VEIW -------- AFT PORT QTR VEIW

A CLOSE UP VEIW OF THE BRIDGE AREA

DETAIL OF MIDSHIPS SECTION ---------- AFT SECTION OF SHIP VEIW

OVERHEAD VEIW OF BASIC BOW DETAILS

BOW OVERHEAD VEIW --------- STERN OVERHEAD VEIW

PORT SIDE BASIC DETAIL

BOW VEIW ----------- STERN VEIW

STD SIDE VEIW

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Name: Richelieu
Namesake: Cardinal de Richelieu
Builder: Brest Navy Yard
Laid down: 22 October 1935
Launched: 17 January 1939
Commissioned: June 1940 / October 1943
Decommissioned: 1967
Struck: 1968

Fate: scrapped

General characteristics

Class and type: Richelieu-class battleship

Displacement:

35,000 tons (standard)
47,548 t (full load)

Length: 247.9 m (813 ft)
Beam: 33 m (108 ft)
Draught: 9.7 m (32 ft)

Propulsion:

150,000 hp (110,000 kW)

four Parsons geared turbines
six Indret Sural boilers

Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h)

Range: 8,500 nautical miles (15,740 km)

Complement: 70 officers, 1,550 men

Sensors and processing systems: metre wavelength radar from February 1941

Armament:

8 × 380 mm (15-inch)/45 Modèle 1935 guns in quadruple mounts at bow
9 × 152 mm (6-inch) secondary (3 × 3 mounted aft)
12 × 100 mm (3.9-inch) anti-aircraft guns (6 × 2)

Before 1943 refit

37 mm AA gun
13.2 mm Hotchkiss machine guns

After 1943 refit

56 40 mm Bofors Anti-Aircraft (14 × 4)
48 20 mm Oerlikon AA cannons

Armour:

Belt: 343 mm (13.5 in)
Decks: 50 to 170 mm (2.0 to 6.7 in)
Turrets: 445 mm (17.5 in)

Aircraft carried: Three flying boats (Loire 130)

Aviation facilities: two catapults, crane, four-aircraft hangar (before refit)

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