French Cruiser Primauguet (1924)
Primauguet was a French Duguay-Trouin-class light cruiser built after World War I and destroyed by US naval gunfire from the battleship Massachusetts. She was named after the 15th Century Breton captain Hervé de Portzmoguer, nicknamed "Primauguet".
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