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The Dunkerque class was a pair of fast battleships built for the French Navy in the 1930s; the two ships were Dunkerque and Strasbourg.They were the first French battleships built since the Bretagne class of pre-World War I vintage, and they were heavily influenced by the Washington Treaty system that limited naval construction in the 1920s and 1930s.
Dunkerque was the lead ship of the Dunkerque class of battleships built for the French Navy in the 1930s. The class also included Strasbourg.The two ships were the first capital ships to be built by the French Navy after World War I; the planned Normandie and Lyon classes had been cancelled at the outbreak of war, and budgetary problems prevented the French from building new battleships in the ...
Vanderbilt boiler An American design, similar to the Lentz and large launch-type boilers. [36] Velox boiler: [61] vertical boiler: flued or fire-tube designs where the main shell is a cylinder on a vertical axis, rather than horizontal. Boilers of this external form may have a great variety of internal arrangements.
Jean Bart was a French fast battleship, the second and final member of the Richelieu class.Built as a response to the Italian Littorio class, the Richelieus were based on their immediate predecessors of the Dunkerque class with the same unconventional arrangement that grouped their main battery forward in two quadruple gun turrets.
The Dunkirk Jack, flown only by civilian ships that participated in the Dunkirk evacuation. The Little Ships of Dunkirk were about 850 private boats [1] that sailed from Ramsgate in England to Dunkirk in northern France between 26 May and 4 June 1940 as part of Operation Dynamo, helping to rescue more than 336,000 British, French, and other Allied soldiers who were trapped on the beaches at ...
2 Cdn Inf Div Invests Dunkirk (PDF). Canadian Participation in the Operations in North-West Europe 1944. Part IV: First Canadian Army in the Pursuit, 23 Aug – 30 Sep (Report). CMHQ Reports (No. 183) (online ed.). Historical Section, Canadian Military Headquarters. OCLC 961861288. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016
Operation Dynamo, the evacuation from Dunkirk and Operation Cycle from Le Havre, had finished on 13 June. British and Allied ships were covered from French bases by five Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter squadrons and assisted by aircraft based in England to lift British, Polish and Czech troops, civilians and equipment from Atlantic ports ...
SUNK by air attack off Dunkirk on 1 June Hebe France: Cargo ship: 1920: 1,684: 1: 0 HMS Hebe Royal Navy: Fleet minesweeper: 1937: 835: Lt. Cdr. John Bruce Goodenough Temple, RN: 3: 1,064 Damaged by air attack off Dunkirk on 31 May; left Dynamo for repair HMS Hebe II Royal Navy: Dutch coaster: 1932: 176: 2: 337 Henri Louis (AD397) French Navy ...