French cruiser Colbert (C611)
Colbert in the port of Bordeaux in its time as a museum ship (2006) | |
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| Name | Colbert |
| Namesake | Jean-Baptiste Colbert |
| Ordered | 1953 |
| Builder | Brest Arsenal |
| Laid down | 9 June 1954 |
| Launched | 24 March 1956 |
| Commissioned | 5 May 1959 |
| Decommissioned | May 1991 |
| Homeport | Brest |
| Fate | Scrapped 2016 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Type | Cruiser |
| Displacement | 9,084 t (8,941 long tons) standard, 11,587 t (11,404 long tons) full load |
| Length | 180.5 m (592 ft 2 in) |
| Beam | 19.7 m (64 ft 8 in) (waterline) |
| Draft | 6.5 m (21 ft 4 in) (max) |
| Installed power | 4 x Indret boilers |
| Propulsion | Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 shafts, 86,000 PS (63,253 kW) |
| Speed | 32 knots (37 mph; 59 km/h) |
| Range | 7,100 nmi (13,100 km) at 18 kn (21 mph; 33 km/h) |
| Complement | 977 (as flagship) |
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| General characteristics (1972) | |
| Type | Guided missile cruiser |
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Colbert (C 611) was an anti-air cruiser, later transformed into a missile cruiser, of the French Navy. She was the sixth ship (and second cruiser) of the French Navy to be named after Jean-Baptiste Colbert (the previous one was scuttled at Toulon in 1942). She served in the Navy from 1956 to 1991, before being converted into a museum ship at Bordeaux from 1993. Colbert was scrapped in 2016.
Colbert was the last French warship designated as a "cruiser". Afterward, the French Navy adopted the term "frigate".