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Battleship Strasbourg, Dunkerque's sistership
Career	French Navy Ensign
Ordered:	1953
Laid down:	December 1953
Launched:	24 March 1956 in Brest
Commissioned:	5 May 1959
Decommissioned:	May 1991
Fate:	Museum ship
Struck:	1991
General Characteristics
Displacement:	11,093 tonnes
Length:	180.47 m
Draft	7.90 m
Beam:	20.31 m
Propulsion:	2 TE CEM-Parsons groupes
Speed:	31 knots
Range:	4,000 nautical miles (7,400 km) at 25 knots.
Complement:	★ Original version: ★ ★ 70 officers ★ ★ 19 chief masters ★ ★ 52 masters ★ ★ 108 aid masters ★ ★ 748 quarter-masters and sailors ★ ★ 2 400 men ★ Missile cruiser version ★ ★ 25 officers ★ ★ 208 petty officers ★ ★ 329 quarter-masters and sailors ★ ★ 500 men
Armament:	★ Original version: ★ ★ 16 × 127 mm AA guns ★ ★ 20 × 57 mm mod 51 guns ★ Missile cruiser version: ★ ★ 4 MM-38 Exocet systems ★ ★ 1 ''Masurca'' system ★ ★ 2 100 mm AA guns ★ ★ 12 × 57 mm mod 51 guns ★ ★ 2 × 12,7 mm AA
Planes	1 helicopter
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The C611 '''Colbert''' was an anti-air cruiser, later transformed into a missile cruiser, of the French Navy. She was the sixth warship to be named after Jean Baptiste Colbert.
She was the second of the series of the ''De Grasse'', and became the flagship of the squadron of the Mediterranean Sea in Toulon. In June 1967, she ferried General De Gaulle to Canada (on the occasion of his famous "Vive le Québec libre speech").
Between 1970 and 1972, she undertook extensive modifications in Brest to become a missile cruiser. Her only war mission was the Gulf War (operation "Salamandre") just before she was decommissioned.
Between 1993 and 2007, she was a museum in Bordeaux. But with financial problems and opposition of neighbourers, she left Bordeaux in may 2007, towed to the navy harbour of Brest. She was now staying in the Landevennec sea cimetery and her destruction is planned for 2010.

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See also

★ French ship ''Colbert'' for other ships by the same name

External links

★ NetMarine.net

★ Site of the museum(french)