French destroyer Typhon

Sister ship Ouragan underway before 1942
History
France
Name: Typhon
Namesake: Typhoon
Ordered: 5 March 1923
Builder: F.&Ch de la Gironde, Bordeaux, France
Laid down: 1 September 1923
Launched: 22 May 1925
Completed: 27 June 1928
Commissioned: 15 February 1928
In service: 22 October 1928
Fate: Scuttled 9 November 1942
General characteristics
Class and type: Bourrasque-class destroyer
Displacement:
  • 1,320 t (1,300 long tons) (standard)
  • 1,825 t (1,796 long tons) (full load)
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:
Propulsion:
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:

Typhon 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, Typhon 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. She was scuttled there on 9 November 1942.[1]

Notes

  1. "FR Epervier of the French Navy". Uboat. Retrieved 9 November 2014.

References

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