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Title: Warship Quiz # 15
Post by: Jester on January 19, 2006, 08:06:35 PM

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Title: Warship Quiz # 15
Post by: TDeacon on January 19, 2006, 08:29:16 PM

French minelaying/training cruiser "La Tour D'Auvergne" (ex-"Pluton") in 1939 (according to my copy of "The French Navy, Volume One", Macdonald Publishing, page 97).

Title: Warship Quiz # 15
Post by: Widewing on January 19, 2006, 08:30:26 PM

The French Minelaying Cruiser Pluton

My regards,

Widewing

Title: Warship Quiz # 15
Post by: TDeacon on January 19, 2006, 08:32:23 PM

Hah!!  Beat you by 45 seconds!!

Title: Warship Quiz # 15
Post by: SMIDSY on January 20, 2006, 04:06:20 AM

a beautiful ship. you gotta hand it to the french, they understand asthetic beuty in war tools.

Title: Warship Quiz # 15
Post by: Karnak on January 20, 2006, 09:59:41 AM

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Originally posted by SMIDSY
a beautiful ship. you gotta hand it to the french, they understand asthetic beuty in war tools.

Have you seen any French bombers from the interwar years?

Title: Warship Quiz # 15
Post by: Mister Fork on January 20, 2006, 10:27:04 AM

Wasn't she sunk by the British after the fall of France?

Title: Warship Quiz # 15
Post by: Jester on January 20, 2006, 04:23:36 PM

French Light Cruiser PLUTON it is!

Congrats!  :aok

PLUTON SPECS:

Type: Light cruiser
Class: PLUTON
Built by: Arsenal de Lorient (Lorient, France)  
Ordered:  
Laid down: 16 Apr, 1928  
Launched: 10 Apr, 1929  
Commissioned: 10 Apr, 1931  
Displacement: 4773 BRT  
Length: 144 meters  
Complement: 406 men  
Armament:
 4 5.5" guns (4x1).
4 3" AA guns (4x1).
2 37mm AA (2x1).
12 13mm AA (4x3).
290 mines  
Max speed:  30 knots
Engines: Geared turbines, 2 shafts  
Power: 57000 SHP  
Notes on class: Minelayer cruiser, also used as a gunnery training ship.
Lost: 13 Sep, 1939  
 
History: Sunk at Casablanca due to an internal explosion while unloading mines. 13 Sep, 1939.

At the time of her loss she was in Casablanca harbor unloading the mine cargo, due to a change in operational orders. Something went deadly wrong while defuzing was in process, blowing up the ship with the loss of 215 men.
In addition to Pluton's sinking, the blast damaged beyond repairs the XMSs AD.287 Charcot and AD.351 Chellah, while several other ships and craft in the vicinity suffered various degrees of damage.
nes.

Title: Warship Quiz # 15
Post by: straffo on January 20, 2006, 04:41:06 PM

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Originally posted by Karnak
Have you seen any French bombers from the interwar years?

check the Bloch MB-131