| French destroyer Typhon | |
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 Sister ship Ouragan underway before 1942 | |
| Career (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 & type: | Bourrasque-class destroyer |
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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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| 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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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[]
- ↑ "FR Epervier of the French Navy". Uboat. http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ships/6012.html. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
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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