French battleship Strasbourg
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Strasbourg was the second and final member of the Dunkerque class of fast battleships built for the French Navy in the 1930s. She and her sister ship Dunkerque were designed to defeat the German Deuts
Strasbourg in port
US Navy recognition drawing of the Dunkerque class
Profile view of Strasbourg from a US Navy warship recognition guide
Strasbourg slips her moorings and makes for open water while under fire from the British Force H
The scuttling of the French fleet at Toulon was orchestrated by Vichy France on 27 November 1942 to prevent Nazi German forces from seizing it. After the Allied invasion of North Africa, the Germans i
French battleship Strasbourg
…flagship of the newly established Forces de haute mer until the Germans attempted to seize the fleet during Case Anton, leading to its destruction in the scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon in November 1942. The wreck was seized by the Italians, who raised Strasbourg and then started dismantling the ship, and was later taken by the Germans…
Strasbourg, Colbert, Algérie, and Marseillaise
The stern of the cruiser Marseillaise
Panzertruppen watch the burning Colbert
Toulon in late 1944