Jauréguiberry (D 637)

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Career

Ordered:
Laid down:	September 1954
Launched:	5 November 1955
Commissioned:	15th of July 1958
Decommissioned:	16th of September 1977
Fate:	Sunk as the Q580 target ship for the experimentation of the Exocet missile.
Struck:	30th of May 1986
General Characteristics
Displacement:	3750 t
Length:	128 m
Width:	12 m
Beam:
Draught:	5 m
Propulsion:	Two Rateau Turbines providing 63000 hp (47 MW)
Speed:	32 knots (59 km/h)
Range:	5000 nautical miles (9,300 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h)
Complement:	19 officers and 328 men.
Armament:	6 x 127 mm AA guns (II x 3) 6 x 57 mm AA guns (II x 3) 2 x 20 mm AA guns (I x 2) ("gull guns" in French Navy slang) 1 Bofors sextuple rocket launcher (ASM) 6 torpedo tubes 550 mm (III x 4) ASM
Detection:	1 general sentry radar DRBV22A 1 surface and navigation sentry radar DRBV31 1 altimetry radar DRBI10B 2 targeting radars DRBC30 ASM detection : DUBA 1B and DUBV 1B (1 DUBV24 from 1970)
Motto:

The fleet escort Jauréguiberry (D637) was a French destroyer of the T53 class, designed for anti-air and (to a lesser extend) anti-submarine roles. She was the second French Navy vessel to bear the name.

In 1966 and 1968, she was involved in two nuclear tests with "Force Alpha", and a third one in 1970 with the cruiser De Grasse, in the Pacific Ocean. In 1974, she archived a long mission with the friagte Duquesne.

In 1977, a few weeks before being decommissioned, she was used for the film "Le Crabe Tambour" by Pierre Schoendoerffer.