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Sunday, 15 May 2016

French light cruiser (ex-Regensburg) Strasbourg in 1923

Launched in 1914, completed in 1914, displacement 4.842 tons, horsepower 26.000 hp, coal-oil fired turbine direct drive machinery and armament of 7-5.9” guns, 6 smaller light and machineguns and 4 torpedo tubes.(1)

Note
1. Former German light cruiser (ex-Ersatz Irene) Regensburg, laid down at the AG Weser Shipyard, Bremen, Germany in 1912, launched on 25 April 1914, commissioned on 3 January 1915, stricken on 10 March 1920, handed over at Cherbourg, France under the temporarily name “J”, renamed Strassbourg II in 1935, used as barracks ship at Lorient until 1944, scuttled by German forces and apparently nowadays is her wreck still visible.

Source
Archive Dutch Naval Staff 1886-1942 (National Archive at The Hague, Netherlands) inventory number 155. Fleets (the British Empire and foreign countries) on 1 February 1923.