| French destroyer Tornade | |
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 Sister ship Ouragan underway before 1942 | |
| Career (France) |  |
| Name: | Tornade |
| Namesake: | Tornado |
| Ordered: | 5 March 1923 |
| Laid down: | 25 April 1923 |
| Launched: | 12 March 1925 |
| Completed: | 10 May 1928 |
| Commissioned: | 1 October 1927 |
| In service: | 21 May 1928 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & 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) |
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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) |
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Tornade 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, Tornade 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]
Notes[]
- ↑ "FR Tornade of the French Navy". Uboat. http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ships/6009.html. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
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.
- Whitley, M. J. (1988). Destroyers of World War Two. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-326-1.
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