Postwar Service
Suffren reentered service with the French Navy after World War II. She was alleged to have participated in the bombing of the Vietnamese port of Haiphong on 23 November 1946, an event that caused over two thousand casualties and contributed to the start of the First Indochina War.
On 1 October 1947, after almost twenty years of service, Suffren was decommissioned, and was used as a hulk in Toulon. She was renamed Océan in 1963, and was ultimately broken up in 1974.
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