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French Battleship Strasbourg

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 equipped with a battery of eight 330 mm (13 in) guns. Strasbourg was laid down in November 1934, was launched in December 1936, and was commissioned in September 1938.

Strasbourg escaped the British attack on Mers-el-Kébir fleeing to Toulon. There, she served as the 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 later seized by the Italians, who raised Strasbourg and then started dismantling the ship, and was later taken by the Germans. The vessel was later bombed and sunk a second time by American bombers in August 1944, and was ultimately sold for scrap in 1955.

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Strasbourg

Mers-el-Kébir

Scuttled at Toulon