C-611 Colbert

Country:  France

Class, [Type]: De Grasse, [CL].

Builder: DCN, Brest, France.

Launch date: 24 March 1956.

Commission date: 05 May 1959.

Decommission date: 1991.

Displacement ( tons ): 8.000 standard, 11.300 at full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 180,8 x 20,2 x 7,7

Main machinery: 2 x CEM-Parsons turbines, 4 x Indret boilers ( 86.000 hp ), 2 x shafts.

Speed ( knots ): 31,5.

Range ( miles ): 4.000 at 25 knots.

Complement: 560 ( 24 officers ).

Guns: Original: 16 x 127mm ( 8 x double mountings ), 20 x 57mm ( 10 x double mountings ); Modernised: 2 x 100mm, 12 x 57mm, 2 x 12,7mm.

Missiles:  SSM: 4 x MM38 Exocet; SAM: 1 x Masurca Mk2 Mod3.

Military lift: Fuel: 1.492 tons.

Radar: Air search: 1 x DRBV-23C; Surface/Air search: 1 x Thales DRBV-50; Navigation: 1 x Decca 1226; Fire Control: 1 x DRBR-51B (SAM), 2 x DRBC-31C (57 mm), 1 DRBC-32C (100 mm).

Countermeasures: Decoys: 2 x Knebworth Corvus chaff launchers, 2 x Syllex; ECM/ESM: ARBB-31, ARBR-10F, ARBB-32B jammer.

Callsign: FAUC ()

Comment: Originally built as a Light Anti-aircraft Cruiser, was later converted during his mid-life update to Guided Missile Cruiser. Served as flagship of the Mediterranean Sea.