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Colbert (C 611)
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| Career |  |
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| Ordered: | 1953 |
| Laid down: | December 1953 |
| Launched: | 24 March 1956 in Brest |
| Commissioned: | 5 May 1959 |
| Decommissioned: | May 1991 |
| Fate: | Scrapping scheduled for 2010 |
| Struck: | 1991 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 11,093 tonnes |
| Length: | 180.47 m |
| Draft | 7.90 m |
| Beam: | 20.31 m |
| Propulsion: | 2 TE CEM-Parsons groupes |
| Speed: | 31 knots |
| Range: | 4,000 nautical miles (7,400 km) at 25 knots. |
| Complement: |
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| Armament: | *Original version:
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| Planes | 1 helicopter |
| Motto: | |
The C611 Colbert was an anti-air cruiser, later transformed into a missile cruiser, of the French Navy. She was the sixth warship to be named after Jean Baptiste Colbert.
She was the second of the series of the De Grasse, and became the flagship of the squadron of the Mediterranean Sea in Toulon. In June 1967, she ferried General De Gaulle to Canada (on the occasion of his famous "Vive le Québec libre speech").
Between 1970 and 1972, she undertook extensive modifications in Brest to become a missile cruiser. Her only war mission was the Gulf War (operation "Salamandre") just before she was decommissioned.
Between 1993 and 2007, she was a museum in Bordeaux. But finacial probelms and oppostion from citzens of Bordeaux forced the museum to close. She was towed in May 2007 to join the mothball fleet in Landevennec. She may be scrapped in 2010.
- French ship Colbert for other ships by the same name
- NetMarine.net
- Site of the museum(french)