French destroyer Trombe

French destroyer Trombe
Sister ship Ouragan underway before 1942
Career (France)
Name:	Trombe
Namesake:	Whirlwind
Ordered:	5 March 1923
Laid down:	5 March 1924
Launched:	27 December 1925
Completed:	27 October 1927
Commissioned:	1 June 1927
In service:	21 December 1927
Fate:	Scuttled 27 November 1942
General characteristics
Class & 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:	31,000 PS (22,800 kW; 30,576 shp) 3 du Temple boilers
Propulsion:	2 shafts 2 geared steam turbines
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:	4 × single 130 mm (5.1 in) guns 1 × single 75 mm (3.0 in) anti-aircraft guns 2 × triple 550 mm (21.7 in) torpedo tubes 2 chutes for 16 depth charges

Trombe 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, Trombe served with the navy of Vichy France. She was among the ships of the French fleet scuttled at Toulon, France, on 27 November 1942. She later was salvaged and repaired by the Regia Marina (Italian Royal Navy).

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.