203mm/55 Modèle 1931 gun

The 203mm/55 Modèle 1931 gun was a medium naval gun of the French Navy.These guns used the same ammunition as the 203mm/50 Modèle 1924 gun and were very similar except for the longer bore. It is believed that the guns were built from tubes of the older 240mm/50 Modèle 1902 guns.

Although commonly described as being used as the main battery of the heavy cruiser French cruiser Algérie, ''Algérie'', mounted in four twin turrets, ''Algérie'' in fact used the same 203mm/50 Modèle 1924 gun, 203mm/50 Modèle 1924 as the rest of the French heavy cruisers.

In fact as written in French Cruisers 1922 - 1956 these guns did not exist.McMurtrie Francis E., page 156

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PIECES LOURDES: 240 et plus

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