The Dunkerque.
Source:Dutch magazine Onze Vloot dated June 1935, p. 80, after a drawing of Adriaan van Sorge
Richelieu-class
An item referred to the magazine Schiffbau dated 15 April 1935 reporting that the French building program for 1934-1935 included the building of 14 ships with a total tonnage of 82.000 tons consisting of 2-35.000 ton battleships (1), 2-1.600 ton destroyers, 2-615 ton torpedo boats, 2-935 submarine minelayers, 1-2.000 ton gunboat for service in the colonies, 4-908 ton escort vessels and 1-48 ton torpedo motor boat.
Notes
1. The Richelieu-class of which the Richelieu and Jean Bart were completed but the Clemenceau and Gascogne not and the with a design standard displacement of 35.000 ton, preceded by the Dunkerque-class and to succeeded by the never built Alsace-class. Designed as an answer on the Italian Vittorio Veneto-class battleships (1) while Italy and not Germany was the main threat for France regarded the supremacy in the Mediterranean. As a result of building under different programs were the ship not entirely similar.
