Ships of World War II
Publisher: The Brown Reference Group
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781840440683
Subjects: Naval forces & warfare; Second World War, 1939-1945
First sentence: Launched on 2 October 1935 and completed in April 1937, Dunkerque was one of two new fast battleships on the French Navy's inventory in 1939, the other being the Strasbourg.