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. 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.

Hsitory: Built too late, Colbert was superseded at the end of the 1960s by a new generation of ships better adapted to new threats. Her big-gun-based armament had become obsolete and inefficient against supersonic attack aircraft and thus between 1970 and 1972 she underwent extensive modifications in Brest to become a missile cruiser, with a double ramp of Masurca surface-to-air missiles. She once again became flagship for the Mediterranean squadron from 1976, but her duties from then on were mainly humanitarian or representative - Agadir in 1960 and the evacuation of Bizerte in 1961. She gained a reputation within the French Navy as a ship that had never fired a single shot in anger, with her only ever active service being in the 1991 Gulf War (operation "Salamandre") a few months before she was decommissioned on 24 May that year.

Stats:
Dimensions: 181 m in lengh
20 m wide
7.90 m underwater
68 m above water

Displacement: 11 300 tons

Propulsion: 4 heater generating 86 000 horsepower allowing the Colbert to go up to 33.7 knots

Range: 4 000 nautical miles at 25 knots

Armament: 4 Exocet tubes
2 Masurca ramps
6 AA turrets of 57 mm
2 100mm cannons
2 12,7 mm machineguns

Aircrafts: One helicopter, on the deck, no hangar

This build will be the first of some other ships and submarine I built during my inactivity.
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