French destroyer Vautour

Half-sister Milan at anchor
History
France
Name: Vautour
Namesake: Vulture
Fate:
  • Scuttled 27 November 1942
  • Refloated
  • Sunk 4 February 1944
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type: Aigle-class destroyer
Displacement:
  • 2,441 t (2,402 long tons) (standard)
  • 3,140 t (3,090 long tons) (full load)
Length: 128.5 m (421 ft 7 in)
Beam: 11.8 m (38 ft 9 in)
Draught: 4.4 m (14 ft 5 in)
Installed power:
Propulsion:
Speed: 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range: 3,650 nmi (6,760 km; 4,200 mi) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Crew: 10 officers, 217 crewmen (wartime)
Armament:

The French destroyer Vautour was one of four Aigle-class destroyer (contre-torpilleurs) built for the French Navy during the 1920s.

In Vichy French service after France surrendered to Germany in June 1940, Vautour was scuttled at Toulon, France, on 27 November 1942 to prevent her capture by the Germans when Germany occupied Vichy France.[1] Later refloated, she was sunk again in an Allied air raid on Toulon on 4 February 1944.[2]

Notes

  1. Rohwer, Jürgen; Gerhard Hümmelchen. "Seekrieg 1942, November". Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart (in German). Retrieved 3 June 2016.
  2. Rohwer, Jürgen; Gerhard Hümmelchen. "Seekrieg 1944, Februar". Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart (in German). Retrieved 3 June 2016.

References

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