French Light cruiser La Galissonniere Country: France Type: Light cruiser Service: 1936 - 1942 Laid down: 15 December 1931 Launched: 18 November 1933 Commissioned: 1 January 1936 Fate: Scuttled 27 November 1942

The La Galissonniere class of light cruisers was a class of 6 ships built for France in the 1930s.

La Galissonniere was the name-ship of a class of French light cruisers. She was built at Arsenal de Brest (Brest, France). At the outbreak of World War II, La Galissonniere carried out patrol duties off the Tunisian coast until mid November 1939, when she started a major refit at Brest until end of February 1940. She then was based at Toulon until the French surrender. From January 1941, she was part of the Vichy High Seas Force at Toulon, effectively disarmed and inactive. Scuttled in 1942, she was raised and nominally transferred to the Regia Marina on 3 March 1943 and renamed FR 12. She was damaged by US bombers on 24 November 1943, after the Italian armistice. Although by now restored to French ownership, she was bombed and sunk on 18 August 1944 in an American air raid. The hulk was raised and finally scrapped in 1952.