French battleship Strassbourg proved to be a very stabile gun platform according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1939 no. 12

Bretagne-class

Dunkerque

An item referred to the Proceedings dated September 1939 reporting that the gun tests on board of the French battleship Strassbourg were a great success. She proved to be a very stabile gun platform. Her 34cm guns had a range of 49.000 yards. Speed 3.282 feet/second.(1)

Note
1. Of the Dunkerque-class fast battleships. This class was preceded by the Bretagne-class, succeeded by the Richelieu-class and an answer to the German so-called pocket battleships of the Deutschland-class (for instance the Graf Spee!). The Strasbourg was laid down in November 1934, launched on 12 December 1936, scuttled at Toulon on 27 November 1942, refloated on 17 July 1943 by the Italian navy but after Italy capitulated in German hands, handed over to France on 1 April 1944, sunk as a result of an American air attack on 18 August 1944, refloated on 1 October 1944 and used as a target for trials with underwater explosives, renamed Q45 on 22 March 1955 and sold on 27 May of the same year to be broken up. Dimensions of these ships were 215,1 x 31,1 x 8,7 metres.