La Galissonnière class cruiser
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| La Galissonnière class light cruiser | |
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| Class Overview | |
| Type: | light cruiser |
| Name: | La Galissonnière |
| Number of ships: | 6 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 7,600 tons (standard) 9120 tons (full load) |
| Length: | 179 metres (589 feet) |
| Beam: | 17.5 metres (57 feet) |
| Draught: | 5.35 metres (17.5 feet) |
| Propulsion: | 2-shaft geared turbines (Parsons or Rateau-Bretagne) 4 Indret boilers 84,000 shp |
| Speed: | 31 knots |
| Range: | 7,000 Nm at 12 knots 6,800 at 14 knots 5,500 at 18 knots 1,650 at 34 knots |
| Protection: | main belt: 105 mm end bulkheads: 30 mm sides: 120 mm deck: 38 mm turrets: 100 mm tower: 95 mm |
| Complement: | 540 |
| Armament: | 9x152 mm (6 inch)/ 54.3 calibre (3x3) 8x90 mm (3.5 inch) anti-aircraft (4x2) 24x40 millimetre (6x4) 4x550mm (21.7 inch) torpedo tubes (2x2) |
| Aircraft: | up to 4 GL-832, later 2 Loire 130 flying boats 1 catapult |
| Ships of the class | |
| La Galissonnière, Montcalm, Georges Leygues, Jean de Vienne, Marseillaise, Gloire | |
The ships were:
- La Galissonnière: scuttled at Toulon
- Montcalm: scrapped 1970.
- Georges Leygues: scrapped November 1959
- Jean de Vienne: scuttled at Toulon
- Marseillaise: scuttled at Toulon
- Gloire: sold for scrap January 1958.
After the Destruction of the French Fleet at Mers-el-Kebir, three of the class (Montcalm, George Leygues and Gloire) passed Gibraltar, without challenge, en route to Dakar and Libreville but re-joined the Allies in 1942. The other three were scuttled at Toulon in November 1942, in response to the attempted German capture of the French Fleet (Operation Lila).
[edit] References
M J Whitley (1995). Cruisers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. London: Arms & Armour, 43-47. ISBN 1-85409-225-1.
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