French destroyer Le Triomphant

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Le Fantasque
Le Fantasque, sister-ship of the Triomphant
Career (France) French Navy Ensign
Namesake: "Triumphing one"
Builder: Dunkerque shipyard
Laid down: 1931
Launched: 1934
Decommissioned: 6 December 1954
Reclassified: March 1943
General characteristics
Class and type: Le Fantasque class destroyer
Displacement: 2570 tonnes
Length: 132.40 m
Beam: 11.98 m
Draught: 4.30 m
Propulsion: 4 Penhoët boilers
2 Parsons or Rateau engines
74,000 to 81,000 HP
2 propellers
Speed: 45 knots (40 nominal)
37 knots after refit
Range: 1,200 km at 34 knots
6,600 km at 17 knots
Complement: 10 officers
210 sailors
Armament: 5 x 138 mm (5.4-inch) guns (2 forward, 3 aft)
4 x 37 mm AA guns (original)
4 x 13 mm AA machine guns (original)
8 x 40 mm Bofors AA guns (after refit)
10 x 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns (after refit)
9 x 550 mm torpedo tubes in three triple mounts
40 mines

The Triomphant was a Le Fantasque class destroyer of the French Navy

Built in Dunkerque from 1931, she was launched in 1934.

She joined the Free French Forces in 1940. She was decommissioned on the 1954-12-06 and was scrapped in Bizerte in 1960.