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Garlicdesign
Post subject: Re: Some French Cold War shipsPosted: May 4th, 2024, 4:30 pm
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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.
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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.
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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.
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She was scrapped in 1974.

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Post subject: Re: Some French Cold War shipsPosted: May 4th, 2024, 6:01 pm
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Garlicdesign wrote: *
she was partly disarmed to serve as flagship of France's nuclear test project in the Pacific from 1966.

PLEASE (this is a PERSONNEL REQUEST :oops: )
draw them as a atomic-test command-ship 1966-1971
PLEAAAAAAAASE ;)


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Post subject: Re: Some French Cold War shipsPosted: May 5th, 2024, 7:59 am
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Great work, loving the Colbert and De Grasse.

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Post subject: Re: Some French Cold War shipsPosted: May 5th, 2024, 10:16 am
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Indeed great additions!

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Post subject: Re: Some French Cold War shipsPosted: May 6th, 2024, 9:56 pm
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Post subject: Re: Some French Cold War shipsPosted: May 7th, 2024, 10:05 am
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Very nice work DP.

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Post subject: Re: Some French Cold War shipsPosted: May 10th, 2024, 4:49 am
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Incredible work in this thread - there are too many excellent drawings to comment on each one individually. Suffice to say, it’s great to see these French warships drawn with such attention to detail and in a unified style.

The Colbert in particular is a fantastic drawing along with the Suffrens - I’ve always had a soft spot for those huge radar domes - they really do evoke that time period of late 1960s/early 1970s technology.


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Post subject: Re: Some French Cold War shipsPosted: May 11th, 2024, 4:36 pm
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Hello everyone!

De Grasse as nuclear test flotilla flagship added in post at top of page.

Cheers
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Post subject: Re: Some French Cold War shipsPosted: May 12th, 2024, 9:29 am
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Colombamike wrote: *
Garlicdesign wrote: *
she was partly disarmed to serve as flagship of France's nuclear test project in the Pacific from 1966.
PLEASE (this is a PERSONNEL REQUEST, draw them as a atomic-test command-ship 1966-1971
PLEAAAAAAAASE
Garlicdesign wrote: *
Hello everyone!
De Grasse as nuclear test flotilla flagship added in post at top of page.
Cheers
GD

THANK-YOU (MERCI) GD ;)


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