French destroyer Mistral
 Sister ship Ouragan underway before 1942
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| History | |
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| Name | Mistral |
| Namesake | Mistral |
| Ordered | 5 March 1923 |
| Laid down | 28 November 1923 |
| Launched | 6 June 1925 |
| Completed | 1 June 1927 |
| Commissioned | 5 April 1927 |
| In service | 21 January 1928 |
| Fate | Constructive total loss 10 June 1944 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Bourrasque-class destroyer |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 105.6 m (346 ft 5.5 in) |
| Beam | 9.7 m (31 ft 9.9 in) |
| Draft | 3.5 m (11 ft 5.8 in) |
| Installed power |
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| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
| Range | 3,000 nmi (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Crew | 9 officers, 153 crewmen (wartime) |
| Armament |
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Mistral was a Bourrasque-class destroyer (torpilleur d'escadre) built for the French Navy during the 1920s.
Design and description
The Bourrasque class had an
kW; 30,576 shp), which would propel the ship at 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph). The ships carried enough fuel oil to give them a range of 3,000 nautical miles (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph).[1]
The main armament of the Bourrasque-class ships consisted of four
stern that housed a total of sixteen 200-kilogram (440 lb) depth charges.[1]
Construction and career
When
Operation Catapult, in which they seized or destroyed French warships in French and British ports to prevent them from falling into German or Vichy French hands. That day, Mistral was partially scuttled at Plymouth during the operation.[2] The British later salvaged her and placed her in Royal Navy
service as HMS Mistral.
Operating with the Free French Naval Forces in support of the
Notes
- ^ a b Jordan & Moulin, p. 41
- ^ "Naval Events, July 1940, Part 1 of 2, Monday 1st- Sunday 14th". Naval History. Retrieved 23 November 2011.
- ^ Rohwer, Jürgen; Gerhard Hümmelchen. "Seekrieg 1944, Juni". Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart (in German). Retrieved 28 August 2015.
- ^ "Hans Leonhardt (5614916)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
References
- Chesneau, Roger, ed. (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
- Jordan, John & Moulin, Jean (2015). French Destroyers: Torpilleurs d'Escadre & Contre-Torpilleurs 1922–1956. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-198-4.
- ISBN 1-59114-119-2.
- ISBN 0-87021-326-1.
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