For other ships of the same name, see French ship Maillé Brézé.
| French destroyer Maillé-Brézé (D627) | |
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 Maillé-Brézé at Nantes in 2002 | |
| Career (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 & 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 x 127-mm (5-inch) guns (3 twin turrets) |
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).
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.[1]
References[]
- Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995
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- (French) Maillé-Brézé naval museum, Nantes
Coordinates: 47°12′24″N 1°34′18″W / 47.20667°N 1.57167°W
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