French destroyer L'Adroit
French destroyer L'Adroit | |
Career (France) | |
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Namesake: | "the skilful one" |
Builder: | A C de France |
Laid down: | 26 May 1925 |
Launched: | 1 April 1927 |
Commissioned: | 1 July 1929 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Type: | Destroyer |
Displacement: | 1,378 tonnes (1,356 long tons) standard 2,000 tonnes (2,000 long tons) full load |
Length: | 107.9 m (354 ft 0 in) |
Beam: | 9.84 m (32 ft 3 in) |
Draught: | 4.3 m (14 ft 1 in) |
Installed power: | 34,000 shp (25,000 kW) |
Propulsion: | 2 shafts, geared steam turbines 3 boilers |
Speed: | 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
Complement: | 142 |
Armament: | 4 × 130 mm (5.1 in) guns 2 × 37 mm (1.5 in) 2 × 13.2 mm machine guns 6 × 550 mm (21.7 in) torpedo tubes |
L’Adroit ("the skilful one") was a destroyer of the French Navy, built prior to the Second World War. She was the lead ship of her class.
L’Adroit was built at A C de France at Dunkirk. She was laid down on 26 May 1925, launched on 1 April 1927 and completed 1 July 1929.
She was in action during the first months of World War II, and with the invasion of France and the Low Countries and was involved with the evacuation of the British and French forces from Dunkirk.
On 25 May 1940 she was bombed and sunk off the Belgian coast.[2]
Notes
References
- Gardiner, R; Chesnau, R: Conways All the Worlds Fighting Ships 1922-1946 (1980) ISBN 0-85177-146-7
- Whitley, MJ : Destroyers of World War Two (1988) ISBN 1-85409-521-8
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