French battleship Richelieu (1939)

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	Fleetscale-Richelieu.
		The French battleship Richelieu was the first of three ships in the class – the third, Clemenceau was never completed as she was bombed by the U.S airforce in 1944.
		Richelieu was launched in January 1939 and spent most of her early wartime career attached to the British home fleet after her completion in 1943.
		As is usual with the Fleetscale, Richelieu's hull incorporates all the plating, hawse pipe and porthole detail and comes with a full sized plan.
	www.model-dockyard.com /fleetscale/richelieu.htm

	Battleships of the French Navy
		French naval battleships and battleship histories from 1859 to 1945, from the Gloire Class broadside ironclads through the dreadnought Danton class to the Richelieu class.
		Taken off list in 1935 and scrapped 1939.
		If you have any information you would like to send us including photographs of crew members serving on this battleship and also photographs of the ship please e-mail them to us at: mail@militaryart.freeserve.co.uk
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /battleships2.htm

	Battleship
		The French French battleship Lorraine was scrapped in 1954, French battleship Richelieu in 1964 and French battleship Jean Bart in 1970.
		The British battleship HMS Prince of Wales (1939) and its battlecruiser escort HMS Repulse (1916) were sunk by Japanese torpedo bombers while in defence of Malaya (Malaysia and Singapore).
		List of Japanese early battleships List of Japanese sail battleships List of Japanese steam battleships List of Japanese dreadnought battleships
	in-northcarolina.com /search/Battleship.html

	HMS Barham (1914) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In September 1940, she engaged the French battleship Richelieu at Dakar, Senegal.
		HMS Barham was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship of the Royal Navy named after Admiral Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, built at the John Brown shipyards in Clydebank, and launched in 1914.
		She was damaged by a German submarine torpedo in December 1939, while at sea north of the British Isles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Barham_%281914%29 (275 words)

	RN Cruisers, HMS Norfolk, Suffolk, Cardiff
		The French battleship Richelieu with the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Cumberland, shown during Operation Crimson after bombarding Sabang during July 1944.
		HMS Dido was launched on 18th July 1939, she took part in the evacuation of troops and defense of Crete, where she was damaged on B gun, killing 46 men.
		HMS Illustrious and HMS Kenya at Devonport by Ivan Berryman
	www.ivanberryman.co.uk /rncruise.htm (1671 words)

	HMS Firedrake Page 2
		At the end of September force H left Gibraltar to intercept the French battleship Richelieu should she attempt to leave Dakar for a Biscay port.
		At the outbreak of the Second World War on 3rd September 1939, the 8th DF was based with the rest of the Home Fleet, at Scapa Flow in the Orkneys.
		On 20th March, the Firedrake was one of eight destroyers which left Scapa at 23.30hr accompanying the 2nd Cruiser Squadron HM ships Galatea (flag of VA 2CS), Aurora, Arethusa and Penelope.
	www.hmsfiredrake.co.uk /firedrake2.htm (1671 words)

	Richelieu and HMS Cumberland
		The French battleship Richelieu with the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Cumberland, shown during Operation Crimson after bombarding Sabang during July 1944.
		Built at Arsenal de Brest and laid down on the 22ndf October 1935 it was launched on the 17th January 1939 and was quickly commissioned into service due to the evacuation of Dakar on the 18th June 1940.
		Grumman Avengers from HMS Vengeance fly over HMS Cumberland and Richelieu in 1945.
	www.military-art.com /dhm1108.htm (861 words)

	23Sep.txt
		Naval forces at Dakar include the unfinished battleship Richelieu and two of the cruisers recently arrived from Toulon.
		Free French troops led by Gen. de Gaulle are carried in ships escorted and supported by units of the Home Fleet and Force H under the command of Vice-Admiral John Cunningham.
		Three Japanese sailors killed 1936 - Soviet submarine S-2 commissioned 1937 - Destroyer HMS Zulu launched 1937 - Light cruiser USS Philadelphia commissioned 1939 - Admiral Nomura Kichisaburo is appointed Foreign Minister in Prime Minister General Abe Nobuyuki's recently appointed Japanese government.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/september/23Sep.txt (1546 words)

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