French destroyer Tramontane
Sister ship Ouragan underway before 1942
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History | |
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France | |
Name | Tramontane |
Namesake | Tramontane |
Ordered | 5 March 1923 |
Builder | Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde, Bordeaux |
Laid down | 29 June 1923 |
Launched | 29 November 1924 |
Completed | 15 October 1927 |
Commissioned | 15 May 1927 |
In service | 1 January 1928 |
Fate | Lost 8 November 1942 |
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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Tramontane was a Bourrasque-class destroyer (torpilleur d'escadre) built for the French Navy during the 1920s.
After France surrendered to Germany in June 1940 during World War II, Tramontane served with the navy of Vichy France. She was at Oran, French Algeria, when the Allies invaded French North Africa in Operation Torch in November 1942. Resisting the invasion, she was badly damaged off Oran on 8 November 1942 by gunfire by the Royal Navy light cruiser HMS Aurora and destroyer HMS Calpe and was beached to avoid sinking.[1]
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).[2]
The main armament of the Bourrasque-class ships consisted of four
stern that housed a total of sixteen 200-kilogram (440 lb) depth charges.[2]
Notes
- ^ "FR Tramontane of the French Navy". Uboat. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
- ^ a b Jordan & Moulin, p. 41
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.