Design and Characteristics
- Characteristics of the class
- Planned standard displacement: 35,000 tons
- Hull dimensions
- Length: 245 metres (804 ft)
- Beam: 33 metres (108 ft)
- Draft: 9.6 metres (31 ft)
Vice Admiral Durand-Viel, the Chief of the Navy's General Staff, was very concerned about continuity between the Richelieu battleship class and the preceding Dunkerque battleship class (whose lead ship had been ordered only two years before), in order to reduce to a minimum planning and construction delays and to create homogeneous combat groups. It was therefore envisaged a similar main and secondary artillery disposition.
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