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Post subject: Re: French De Grasse Class Light CruiserPosted: February 19th, 2016, 9:23 pm
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Amazing photo, Cplnew83! It seems that the Colbert had suffered from a fire forward, the top of B gun is blackened, or maybe from the firing of Exocet?
That's just the result of years of neglect in a swamp, moisture in Brittany is terrible.

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Post subject: Re: French De Grasse Class Light CruiserPosted: February 19th, 2016, 9:33 pm
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Cplnew83 wrote:
Novice wrote:
Amazing photo, Cplnew83! It seems that the Colbert had suffered from a fire forward, the top of B gun is blackened, or maybe from the firing of Exocet?
That's just the result of years of neglect in a swamp, moisture in Brittany is terrible.
Be nice many of my ancestors were from Bretagne. :lol:

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Post subject: Re: French De Grasse Class Light CruiserPosted: February 19th, 2016, 11:11 pm
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David Latuch wrote:
Cplnew83 wrote:
Novice wrote:
Amazing photo, Cplnew83! It seems that the Colbert had suffered from a fire forward, the top of B gun is blackened, or maybe from the firing of Exocet?
That's just the result of years of neglect in a swamp, moisture in Brittany is terrible.
Be nice many of my ancestors were from Bretagne. :lol:
That says something :lol:
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Post subject: Re: French De Grasse Class Light CruiserPosted: February 20th, 2016, 3:35 am
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Hej din norske gutte! 8-) Bretons are tough! Just think about Kersaint, Kerlessy de Trogoff, St Allouarn (Older and Younger) and a whole host of other Fench naval heros! Brittany is France's Cornwall! :D

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Post subject: Re: French De Grasse Class Light CruiserPosted: February 20th, 2016, 11:05 am
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Hej din norske gutte! 8-) Bretons are tough! Just think about Kersaint, Kerlessy de Trogoff, St Allouarn (Older and Younger) and a whole host of other Fench naval heros! Brittany is France's Cornwall! :D
Well we had Eirik Blodøks (Bloodaxe) Haraldsson as a king back in the days :D
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Post subject: Re: French De Grasse Class Light CruiserPosted: February 21st, 2016, 8:51 pm
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Great photograph, although very, very sad.
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Post subject: Re: French De Grasse Class Light CruiserPosted: February 21st, 2016, 9:00 pm
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De Grasse as commissioned September 10, 1956:

De Grasse was laid down in 1939 but do to the fortunes of war was finally launched in 1946 one year after the end of WWII. The completion of De Grasse was halted again between 1946 and 1951. In 1951 De Grasse was towed to the Brest Navy yard to be completed, to a significantly modified design as an anti-aircraft cruiser.

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16 × 127 mm guns (8 twin turrets)
20 × 57 mm guns (10 twin turrets)
No more aircraft and no more torpedo
Her sea trials began on 17 August 1954 and after 17 years she was commissioned on September 10, 1956.
Here is De Grasse as she appeared on September 10, 1956:

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Post subject: Re: French De Grasse Class Light CruiserPosted: February 21st, 2016, 9:33 pm
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Great work!
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Post subject: Re: French De Grasse Class Light CruiserPosted: February 21st, 2016, 9:49 pm
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Very nice work!

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Post subject: Re: French De Grasse Class Light CruiserPosted: February 28th, 2016, 10:55 am
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A very fine drawing of the last of the gun cruisers.
Makes an interesting comparison with the GW series of cruisers I've been doing which from the same time (but would of course had completed over half a decade later.

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