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 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
French battleship Strasbourg
…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 Deutschland class of…
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