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Half, or part, or what part, was still a mystery last week. Most reliable sources in London said that, while a few vessels might have escaped, all available information showed that the battleship Strasbourg and the cruisers Algerie, Dupleix and Colbert had been sunk, that most of the other 58 French warships in Toulon on that shattering dawn had at least been seriously damaged...
Suicide of a Fleet. The first German armored force, having fought its way into the base, reached Milhaud dock where the battleship Strasbourg was lying. As German officers leaped from their cars and ran to the gangplanks, there was a flash and a roar and the great, 26,500-ton ship disintegrated before their eyes...
...Navy was at: 1) Dakar, 1,500 miles southwest of Casablanca; 2) Toulon, France's base 400 miles north of Algiers. The battleship Richelieu, three light cruisers, several destroyers and some submarines at Dakar did not figure in the initial defense. At Toulon were the battleships Strasbourg, Dunkerque (repaired after its shelling by the British in 1940) and Provence (also damaged but repaired), probably seven cruisers, 25 destroyers, 27 submarines and one seaplane carrier (the Commandant Teste). Axis reports said Toulon naval units...
...serves as a floating fort for Dakar. Its sister ship, Jean Bart, towed to Casablanca at the war's outbreak while still incomplete, has possibly not yet had all its guns mounted. Fully repaired or nearly so, after the battle of Oran, are the 26,500-ton Strasbourg and Dunkerque, the 22,000-ton Provence, all in Toulon. There are also eleven heavy and light cruisers, six supposedly en route to Madagascar, two perhaps in Dakar, the rest in French home ports. There are some 40 destroyers, some 60 submarines...
...anchor by the British Fleet (TIME, Sept. 16, 1940), the Dunkerque is still too battered for active service. But Nazi Germany knows, as do Vichyfrance and the U.S., that eleven French cruisers are in European or African waters, handy for immediate action, that the Dunkerque's sister ship Strasbourg is fit & ready, that the balance of the Vichy Fleet is quietly undergoing repairing and refitting...