French Heavy cruiser Suffren Country: France Type: Heavy cruiser Service: 1930 - 1947 Laid down: 4 April 1926 Launched: 3 May 1927 Commissioned: 1 January 1930 Decommissioned: 1 October 1947 Fate: Scrapped 1972

The Suffren class was a class of 4 heavy cruisers built for the French Navy in the interwar period. The ships were named: Colbert, Dupleix, Foch, and Suffren.

The Suffren was the name ship of her class of French heavy cruisers. Suffren participated in Allied operations during World War II prior to the French surrender in 1940. In Egypt at the time, she was disarmed and interned by the British on 3 July 1940. After the German occupation of Vichy France, Suffren rejoined the Allied war effort. She was rearmed on 30 May 1943 and remained active until the end of the war. Postwar, on November 1946, Suffren bombarded the city of Haiphong, Vietnam which resulted in more than two thousand casualties and contributed to a start of First Indochina War. She was eventually decommissioned on 1 October 1947, and used as a hulk in Toulon before being broken up in 1974.