Dunkerque
An item reported the arrival a day earlier of world largest floating crane at Brest, France. She was built in Germany for France as part of the First World War reparations. A German source claimed that she was especially to be used for the building of the French armoured cruiser Dunkerque.(1)
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1. Of the Dunkerque-class of battleships. Laid down at the navy yard at Brest, France on 24 December 1932, launched on 2 October 1935, commissioned on 1 May 1937, scuttled at Toulon, France on 27 November 1942 and finally broken up in 1958.
