The inventory totals two fast battleships and seven other battleships, with eleven light cruisers and seven heavy cruisers. Seventy destroyers of various types and eighty-three submarines add substantial strength below the capital ships. Named light-cruiser groups include Duguay-Trouin and La Galissonnière, alongside Jeanne d'Arc and Émile Bertin. Pluton supplies the minelaying-cruiser element. Such a force represents a large loss to Allied capability when the French government collapses in June 1940.
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France brings substantial forces below the capital-ship level
The fleet inventory includes cruisers, a minelaying cruiser, seventy destroyers, and eighty-three submarines alongside its battleships.