French cruiser Émile Bertin

	Émile Bertin
Class overview
Operators	French Navy
Preceded by	Jeanne d'Arc
Succeeded by	La Galissonnière class
Built	1931-1935
In commission	1935-1959
Completed	1
Retired	1
History
France
Name	Émile Bertin
Namesake	Louis-Émile Bertin
Builder	Chantiers de Penhoët
Laid down	18 August 1931
Launched	9 May 1933
Commissioned	28 January 1935
Decommissioned	October 1951
Stricken	27 October 1959
Fate	Scrapped in 1961
General characteristics
Type	Light cruiser
Displacement	5,886 t (5,793 long tons) (standard); 6,530 t (6,430 long tons) (max load); 8,480 t (8,350 long tons) (max overload);
Length	177 m (581 ft) (overall)
Beam	15.84 m (52.0 ft)
Draught	5.44 m (17.8 ft)
Installed power	102,000 shp (76,000 kW); 137,908 shp (102,838 kW) on trials;
Propulsion	Parsons SR geared steam turbines; 6 Penhoët boilers;
Speed	34 kn (63 km/h; 39 mph) (40 kn (74 km/h; 46 mph) during trials)
Range	6,000 nmi (11,000 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph); 2,800 nmi (5,200 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph); 1,100 nmi (2,000 km) at 33 kn (61 km/h; 38 mph);
Complement	711
Armament	Initial; 9 × 152 mm (6.0 in)/55 guns (3 × 3); 4 × 90 mm (3.5 in)/50 anti-aircraft guns (1 × 2 and 2 × 1); 8 × 37 mm (1.5 in) anti-aircraft guns (4 × 2); 8 × 13.2 mm (0.52 in) anti-aircraft guns (4 × 2); 6 × 550 mm (22 in) torpedo tubes (2 × 3); 200 mines; Refit December 1943; 9 × 152 mm (6.0 in)/55 guns (3 × 3); 8 × 90 mm (3.5 in)/50 anti-aircraft guns (1 × 2, 2 × 1, 2 × 2); 16 × 40 mm (1.6 in) anti-aircraft guns (4 × 4) ; 20 × 20 mm anti-aircraft guns (20 × 1); 200 mines;
Armour	Deck: 25 mm (0.98 in); Magazine: 30 mm (1.2 in); Conning tower: 20 mm (0.79 in);
Aircraft carried	2 seaplanes (removed in 1943)
Aviation facilities	1 catapult (removed in 1943)

Émile Bertin was a French fast light cruiser named after Louis-Émile Bertin, a 19th-century naval architect. She was designed to operate both as a minelayer and as a destroyer flotilla leader. The design was the basis for later light and heavy French cruisers, particularly the slightly larger La Galissonnière class of cruisers. This was the first French warship to use triple mountings for guns.

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