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French battleship Dunkerque
''Dunkerque'' was the lead ship of the 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 the French Navy after World War I; the planned and es had been cancelled at the outbreak of war, and budgetary problems prevented the French from building new battleships in the decade after the war. ''Dunkerque'' was laid down in December 1932, was launched October 1935, and was completed in May 1937. She was armed with a main battery of eight 330mm/50 Modèle 1931 guns arranged in two quadruple gun turrets and had a top speed of .
''Dunkerque'' and ''Strasbourg'' formed the French Navy's ''1ère Division de Ligne'' (1st Division of the Line) prior to the Second World War. The two ships searched for German commerce raiders in the early months of the war, and ''Dunkerque'' also participated in convoy escort duties. The ship was badly damaged during the British attack at Mers-el-Kébir after the Armistice that ended the first phase of France's participation in World War II, but she was refloated and partially repaired to return to Toulon for comprehensive repairs. ''Dunkerque'' was scuttled in November 1942 to prevent her capture by the Germans, and subsequently seized and partially scrapped by the Italians and later the Germans. Her wreck remained in Toulon until she was stricken in 1955, and scrapped three years later.
== Development ==
(詳細はWashington Naval Treaty attempting to produce a satisfactory design to fill 70,000 tons as allowed by the treaty.〔Labayle Couhat, pp. 37–38〕 Initially, the French sought a reply to the Italian s of 1925, but all proposals were rejected. A 17,500-ton cruiser, which could have handled the ''Trento''s, was inadequate against the old Italian battleships, however,〔Dumas, pp. 13–15〕〔Jordan & Dumas, pp. 19–22〕 and the 37,000-ton battlecruiser concepts were prohibitively expensive and would jeopardize further naval limitation talks.〔Jordan & Dumas, pp. 24–26〕 These attempts were followed by an intermediate design for a 23,690-ton protected cruiser in 1929; it was armed with guns, armoured against guns, and had a speed of . Visually, it bore a profile strikingly similar to the final ''Dunkerque''.〔
The German s became the new focus for French naval architects in 1929. The design had to respect the 1930 London Naval Treaty, which limited the French to two 23,333-ton ships until 1936. Drawing upon previous work, the French developed a 23,333-ton design armed with guns, armoured against the German cruisers' guns, and with a speed of . As with the final ''Dunkerque'', the main artillery was concentrated entirely forward. The design was rejected by the French parliament in July 1931 and sent back for revision. The final revision grew to 26,500 tons; the 305-mm guns were replaced by 330mm/50 Modèle 1931 guns, the armour was slightly improved, and the speed slightly decreased.〔Dumas, pp. 16–17〕〔Jordan & Dumas, pp. 28–29〕 Parliamentary approval was granted in early 1932, and ''Dunkerque'' was ordered on 26 October.〔Breyer, p. 433〕
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