Richelieu was also attacked in Dakar, Jean Bart escaped to North Africa, and others were interned and disarmed. This story ended in tragedy in Mers-El Kebir, seeing the Bretagne blewing up, Provence and Dunkerque badly damaged, and Strasbourg escaping though a barrage of fire and magnetic mines. Jean Bart and the cruisers Suffren and Montcalm in the 1960s Pagemarker of all the French Battleships in service in 1939, from the old schoolship Condorcet, to the rebuilt Jean Bart in 1950. Churchill was certainly not at ease thinking what the Germans could have done with the Richelieu, or complete the Jean Bart. The defeat on land, soon after Italy declared on France in June 1940, put forward the question of its fate. In 1939, the French capital ship force was in Europe only second to Great Britain, dwarfing the Kriegsmarine and a serious threat to the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean. Each iteration brought innovations in concept and design. French WW2 Battleships France, 11 Battleships (1910-1940) Introduction In thirty years, from her first dreadnought battleship, Courbet, started late, in 1910 to the Jean Bart and Gascogne project in 1940, France only had produced four classes of battleships, the Courbet, Bretagne, Dunkerque, and Richelieu, transitioning from dreadnought to super dreadnought, and semi-battlecruiser to fast battleship, respectively.
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