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2 unusual facts about French cruiser Dupleix


Dupleix

French cruiser Dupleix, French heavy cruiser of the Suffren class, launched 9 October 1930

French cruiser Dupleix

While on patrol in the Atlantic with the destroyers, Le Fantasque and Le Terrible, she intercepted and captured the German freighter Santa Fé, on 25 October 1939, On 14 June 1940, Dupleix participated in the French raid on Genoa, with sister ships Foch and Colbert.



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