French destroyer Maillé-Brézé (D627)

Maillé-Brézé at Nantes in 2002
History
France
Name:	Maillé-Brézé
Namesake:	Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé
Laid down:	February 1951
Launched:	October 1953
Commissioned:	4 May 1957
Decommissioned:	1988
Fate:	Museum ship
General characteristics
Class and type:	T 47-class destroyer
Displacement:	2,750 tons standard 3,740 tons full load
Length:	128.6 m (422 ft)
Beam:	12.7 m (42 ft)
Draught:	5.4 m (18 ft)
Installed power:	63,000 shp (47,000 kW)
Propulsion:	4 diesel boilers 2 shafts Geared steam turbines
Speed:	34 kn (63 km/h)
Range:	5,000 nmi (9,300 km) at 18 kn (33 km/h)
Complement:	347
Armament:	6 × 127-mm (5-inch) guns (3 twin turrets) 6 × 57-mm (2.2-inch) guns (3 twin turrets) 4 × 20-mm (0.79-inch) guns (4 × 1) 12 × 550-mm (22-inch) torpedo tubes (4 × 3)

Maillé-Brézé is a T 47-class destroyer (escorteur d'escadre) of the French Navy. She was built by Arsenal de Lorient in Lorient, commissioned on 4 May 1957 and named after the French admiral Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé (1619–1646).

On 2 March 1962, Maillé-Brézé, along with another four destroyers, landed fresh troops at Algiers to fight the OAS upsurge.^[1] Assisted by her sister ship Surcouf, she was about to shell the OAS-held quarter of Bab-el-Oued when a counter-order called the operation off. The destroyers instead took battle stations close to the shore as a deterrent.^[2]

In 1988 she was decommissioned and became a museum ship in Nantes. She has been listed as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture since October 1991.^[3]

On 21 February 2016, director Christopher Nolan announced plans to feature the ship in his upcoming World War II film Dunkirk.^[4]

References

• Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Maillé-Brézé (D627).

• (French) Maillé-Brézé naval museum, Nantes

Coordinates: 47°12′24″N 1°34′18″W / 47.20667°N 1.57167°W / 47.20667; -1.57167