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Richelieu Class

Name	Builders	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned
Clemenceau	A	17th January 1939	1943	N/A
Gascoigne	L	N/A	N/A	N/A
Jean Bart	L	January 1939	6th March 1940	1st May 1955
Richelieu	A	22nd October 1935	17th January 1939	15th July 1940

Builders:
A : Arsenal de Brest, Brest, France
L : A.C. de la St. Nazaire, Penhoet, France

Dimensions:
813' 2" x 108' 3" x 31' 7" / 247.80m x 33.00m x 9.90m

Displacement:
38500 tons std / 43293 tons max

Complement:
1670

Armament:
8 x 15"/45 Mod 35 guns in quad turrets (832 rounds in total)
9 x 6"/55 Mod 36 guns in triple turrets (2800 rounds in total)
12 x 3.9"/45 Mod 31 guns in twin turrets
8 x 37mm guns in twin mountings
16 x 13.2mm guns in quad mountings

Aircraft Facilities:
Two catapults were fitted and three seaplanes were carried.

Armour:
Belt: 9.8" - 13.6"
C.T.: 13.8"
6" Turrets: 2.8" - 5.1"
15" Turrets: 6.7" - 16.9"
Deck: 2" - 6.7"

Powerplant:
Six Indret boilers were fitted with four Parsons steam turbines providing a total of 150000shp on four shafts.

Maximum speed was 30kts and maximum fuel load was 6796 tons oil. Range was 5500NM @ 18kts or 2500NM @ 26kts.

Electronics Fit:
Radar:
None

Sonar:
None

Other:
N/A

Miscellaneous: