Hello everyone!
And the other anti-air cruiser: De Grasse.
As finished, she had the same armament as the later, slightly smaller Colbert: 16 127mm DP guns and 20 57mm AA guns. She bore no resemblance anymore to her original 1938 design; in a somewhat anachronistic move, the transom stern was remodeled to a rounded configuration. In the guise shown below, she was commissioned just in time for the Suez campaign of 1956.
![[ img ]](http://www.shipbucket.com/drawings/10776/file)
Apparently the design was top heavy, because four 57mm twins and the lateral main battery directors were removed in 1961. Also, the air/surface search radar was replaced by a second air surveillance set of a different type, and the commo array was augmented.
![[ img ]](http://www.shipbucket.com/drawings/10777/file)
After less than ten years of active service as a cruiser, she was partly disarmed to serve as flagship of France's nuclear test project in the Pacific from 1966.
![[ img ]](http://www.shipbucket.com/drawings/10842/file)
She was scrapped in 1974.
Cheers
GD
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