Foch
1939
(Neptun 1431)
- Class: Suffren - 4 heavy cruisers of 1925-28
- Displacement: 10,000 tons
- Dimensions: 636.5 (oa) x 63 x 20.75 ft.
- Machinery: 3-shaft geared turbines, 90,000 shp = 31 knots
- Armor: 54 mm belt, 18 mm deck, 30 mm turrets, CT
- Armament: 8-8in (4x2), 8-90mm AA (8x1), 8-37mm AA (4x2) guns; 6-21.7in TT (2x3); 3 aircraft
- Complement: 752
- Builder: Arsenal de Brest
- Laid down: 21 Jun 1928
- Launched: 24 Apr 1929
- Completed: 20 Dec 1931
- Service: Distinguished from sisters by extra broad tripod foremast. With sister ships Colbert and Dupleix fired on the industrial installations of Vado-Genoa in June 1940. All scuttled at Toulon on 27 November 1942.
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