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The French destroyer Vautour was one of six Aigle-class destroyer (contre-torpilleurs) built for the French Navy in the interwar period.

Half-sister Milan at anchor
History
France
NameVautour
NamesakeVulture
BuilderForges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne
Launched26 August 1930
Completed2 May 1932
Fate
  • Scuttled 27 November 1942
  • Refloated
  • Sunk 4 February 1944
General characteristics (as built)
Class and typeAigle-class destroyer
Displacement
  • 2,441 t (2,402 long tons) (standard)
  • 3,140 t (3,090 long tons) (full load)
Length128.5 m (421 ft 7 in)
Beam11.8 m (38 ft 9 in)
Draught4.4 m (14 ft 5 in)
Installed power
  • 64,000 PS (47,000 kW; 63,000 shp)
  • 4 du Temple boilers
Propulsion
  • 2 shafts
  • 2 geared steam turbines
Speed36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range3,650 nmi (6,760 km; 4,200 mi) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Crew10 officers, 217 crewmen (wartime)
Armament
  • 5 × single 138.6 mm (5.5 in) guns
  • 4 × single 37 mm (1.5 in) anti-aircraft guns
  • 2 × triple 550 mm (21.7 in) torpedo tubes
  • 2 chutes, 4 throwers for 44 depth charges

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.

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