DUGUAY-TROUIN cruiser 1926

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DUGUAY-TROUIN cruiser 1926

Post by aukepalmhof » Mon Aug 15, 2016 9:02 pm

This stamp issued by France in 1976 shows us two warships both named DUGUAN-TROUIN, the stamp was issued that the Reserve Officers Society in France did exist 50th year.
The ship on the left is commissioned in 1926, on the right in 1974.

Built as a cruiser on the Arsenal de Brest at Brest for the French Navy.
04 August 1922 laid down.
14 August 1923 launched as the DUGUAN-TROUIN.
Displacement: 7,249 ton standard, 9,350 ton full load, dim. 181.30 x 17.50 x 6.14m. (draught)
Powered by Parson geared turbines, 102,000 shp., four shafts, speed 33 knots.
Range by a speed of 15 knots, 3,000 mile.
Armament: 8 – 155 mm guns, 4 – 75mm AA guns, 12 – 550 mm torpedo tubes.
Crew 578.
Carried when built two Gourdou-Leseurre GL-812 aircraft, one catapult.
02 November 1926 commissioned.

DUGUAY-TROUIN was the lead ship of a class of French light cruisers, launched in the early 1920s. She was named after René Duguay-Trouin , Sieur du Gué, French privateer, admiral and Commander in the Order of Saint-Louis.
Pre-war
After completion, DUGUAY-TROUIN was assigned to the 2nd Squadron and based at Brest. In 1929, she became flagship of the 3rd Light Division in the Mediterranean and, in 1931, she undertook an extended cruise to Indo-China, then a French colony. DUGUAY-TROUIN returned to the 2nd Squadron at Brest in 1932, this time as flagship, remaining there until 1935. In 1936, she became a gunnery training ship until June 1939, when she joined the 6th Cruiser Division.
World War II
France declared war on 3 September 1939 and DUGUAY-TROUIN, with other French ships commenced Atlantic patrols to intercept German shipping. On 16 October 1939 DUGUAY-TROUIN intercepted the German merchant ship HALLE 200 miles (320 km) south-west of Dakar. HALLE was scuttled to prevent its capture.
In early May, 1940, she was transferred to the eastern Mediterranean, based at Beirut, for operations in the Adriatic and Dodecanese.
After the French surrender, she joined Admiral Rene-Emile Godfroy's Force X at Alexandria, Egypt where she was, with other French warships, disarmed by agreement and interned by the British from 22 June 1940. Axis forces occupied Vichy France in November 1942. DUGUAY-TROUIN rejoined the Allies on 30 May 1943 and was re-armed in July.
Her first Allied employment was as a troop transport in early 1944. She supported the landings in southern France in August 1944 and subsequently undertook bombardments along the Italian coast until April 1945.
In May 1945 DUGUAY-TROUIN bombarded villages in Algeria during the Sétif and Guelma massacre. The ship was later sent to Indo-China and supported army operations against the Viet Minh.
She was decommissioned on 19 March 1952, where after she was scrapped the same year.

France 1976 1f sg2122, scott?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_cr ... uay-Trouin
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