Dunkerque-class battleship
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The Dunkerque class was a pair of fast battleships built for the French Navy in the 1930s; the two ships were Dunkerque and Strasbourg. They were the first French battleships built since the Bretagne
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Trieste, one of the Trento-class cruisers the early French battleship designs were intended to counter
The German cruiser Deutschland, which prompted significant revisions to what eventually became the Dunkerque class
Strasbourg slips her moorings and makes for open water while under fire from the British Force H
French battleship Dunkerque
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Dunkerque was the lead ship of the Dunkerque class of battleships built for the French Navy in the 1930s. The class also included Strasbourg. The two ships were the first capital ships to be built by
Dunkerque-class battleship
…The Dunkerque class was a pair of fast battleships built for the French Navy in the 1930s; the two ships were Dunkerque and Strasbourg. They were the first French battleships built since the Bretagne class of pre-World War I vintage, and they were heavily influenced by…
US Navy recognition drawing of Dunkerque
The destroyer Le Fantasque with Dunkerque during training exercises in June 1939
The German heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee, one of the vessels Dunkerque was tasked with hunting early in the war