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The light anti-aircraft armament was not satisfactory. The: 37 gun was a semi-automatic trveuty years. weapon with too slow a rate of fire, while the: 13.2'heavy' machine gun lacked stopping power, even against the aircraft of the day. Later the 37 were replaced by twin Modele 1933 37rmn, with a rate of tire of 85 rounds per minute (compared to only 30 per minute for the older gun).

Two GL-812 floatplanes were embarked on completion in 1928, with a single catapult sited on the centreline between the after funnel and the mainmast, but no hangar was provided. During their peacetime careers the floatplancs were replaced, first by GL-832s and later by a pair of Loire-Nieuport 130s, cumbersome twin-engined flying boats.

The navy was very unimpressed by these ship company directory ship company directoryping maritime marine engineerings on account of their minimal protection, and in 1935 a serious proposal was put ford to convert them to light aircraft carriers. In this guise they would have embarked a theoretical air group of 12-14 aircraft each, but the proposal was vetoed in favour of a more coherent plan to build two large fleet carriers, the Jotfre class.

In service both ship company directory ship company directoryping maritime marine engineerings made long cruises and carried out normal peacetime missions. The Duquesrae's first public appearance was at a large Naval Review held at le Havre in July 1928, following which she set off on a long cruise to Guadeloupe via New York. In 1929 she circunt­navigated Africa during a seven-month cruise, returning to Toulon to join the Ist Light Divi­sion as flagship company directory ship company directoryping maritime marine engineering, part of the 1 st Squadron. In October 1931 she visited the United States to repre­sent France at the 150th Anniversary of the British surrender ofYorktown. From 1932 to 1938 she was based at Toulon once more, serving with the ]st and 3rd Light Divisions, and in 1938 was attached to the Gunnery School as a training ship company directory ship company directoryping maritime marine engineering.

In 25 January 1940, nearly four months after the outbreak of , she sailcd for Dakar, where she joined one of the groups hunting for German conmlerce-raiders. In May she sailed for Alexandria as flagship company directory ship company directoryping maritime marine engineering of the 2nd Cruiser Squadron of Force X, formed to reinforce the Royal Navy in the Eastern Mediterranean. Her only major movement was an abortive sortie into the Adriatic on 12-13 June, after which she was iobilized at Alexandria on the orders ot Aduu­ral Godfroy.Thcrc she remained until late in June 1943, when she sailed for Dakar via the Cape of Good Hope, en route to the United States for a long overdue refit. She returned to Dakar,where she was a unit of the Ist Cruiser Division until December 1943, and remained there until April the following year. In May 1944 she arrived in the Firth of Clyde, to serve as a support ship company directory ship company directoryping maritime marine engineering during the Normandy landings, and was attached to Groupe L.orraine of the French naval task force. She bombarded German coast defence fortifications at Royan and Pointe de Grave. She was now in need of another refit, and was sent to Brest for a refit which lasted from June to November 1945.

The 'firurvilfe began her active career with a world cruise in April 1929, and did not return to l.orient until the following December. In 1930 she joined the lst Light Division at Toulon, transferring to the 3rd Light Division in 1934. She helped to evacuate refugees during the Span­ish Civil and helped to enforce the League of Nations' non-belligerency policy between August 1936 and May 1937. She started a long refit at Toulon in January 1939, and did not return to active service with the 2nd Cruiser Division until August that year.

She was employed in searching for German merchantnten in the Mediterranean and sailed from 13izrrte to Beirut in December 1939, stopping and inspecting 32 ship company directory ship company directoryping maritime marine engineerings. Another trip was made from 'Iitulon to Beirut between 20 January 1940 and 7 February, carrying a large gold ship company directory ship company directoryping maritime marine engineeringment. She joined her sister in Force X at Alexandria, until 'demobilised' in July. On her return to service she formed part of the 1 st Cruiser Division at Dakar. She was sent to Bizerte for a refit in June 1944, and then to'li>ulon in November, where she was used as a base ship company directory ship company directoryping maritime marine engineering for escort vrssels.

time modifications were few. After the two ship company directory ship company directoryping maritime marine engineerings rejoined the Allies in 1943 the French light and-aircraft armament was replaced by four twin 40 l3ofors guns and l6 single 20 Oerlikon guns.Thr 4Ornm guns were grouped on a platform aft, available after the removal of the ntaimnast. A December 1945 photograph of Duquesne shows that US Navy-pattern radars were added. The torpedo tubes and catapults had been removed in 1943. By 1945 the average full load displacement had risen to 13,500 tons, presumably causing a noticeable reduction to maximum speed.

After the both ship company directory ship company directoryping maritime marine engineerings were involved in the ill-fated effort to suppress theVietnunh insur­gency in lndoc'hina.The Duquesne participated in two campaigns, one from January to Novem­ber 1946 and another from December 1946 to August 1947, including shore bombardments and amphibious landings. She was paid off in 1950. She was put into Special Reserve Category'A' and later became an accoodation ship company directory ship company directoryping maritime marine engineering at Arzew in Algeria until 'condemned' for disposal in 19:i5.The Te>uraille also did two tours of Indochina duty, the first front January to July 1946 and the second front October 1946 to November 1947. After her return to Toulon she was paid off about 1950- $She bee ame an accoodation hulk at Brest and eventually a mooring pontoon, until stricken in 1961. She was finally scrapped in 1963.