The French naval building program 1935 according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1935 no. 4

French Dunkerque

French Richelieu-class

With our thanks to Enrico

An item referred to the magazine Revista Marittime dated May 1935 reporting that under the French building program 1935 a 35.000 ton battleship (1) was to be built and 2 around 1.700 ton destroyers. Submarines were not included in the program while the minister for navy used to finance the small submarines out of the budget for the coastal defence.

Note
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 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. The Richelieu was aid down at the Brest Navy Yard, France on 22 October 1935, launched in the Salou no. 4 graving dock on 17 January 1939, bow and stern parts were with the hull assembled in the Laninon dock no. 9, trials in April 1940, commissioned in June 1940, part of the forces of Vichy France, attacked by British Royal Air Force while lying at Dakar, Senegal - afraid she would fell in German hands, on 8 July 1940, involved in the Battle of Dakar against Free French and British forces between 23-25 September 1940, departed for the USA on 30 January 1943, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard overhauled and repaired, commissioned in October 1943, accommodation ship at Brest since 21 May 1956, laid up in reserve in 1958, condemned in 16 January 1968, renamed Q432 and breaking up at Cantieru Navali Santa Maria, Genoa, Italy started in September 1968.