French sloop La Capricieuse
 La Capricieuse | |
| Career (France) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | La Capricieuse |
| Builder: | Chantiers Dubigeon |
| Launched: | 19 April 1939 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, September 1964 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Elan class avisos |
| Displacement: | standard 630 tons full load 740 tons |
| Length: | 78.30 m (256 ft 11 in) o/a[1] 73.81 m (242 ft 2 in) p/p[1] |
| Beam: | 8.70 m (28 ft 7 in)[1] |
| Draught: | 3.28 m (10 ft 9 in)[1] |
| Propulsion: | 2 × Sulzer marine diesel engines, 4,600 hp (3,430 kW), 2 shafts[1] |
| Speed: | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)[1] |
| Range: | 10,000 nautical miles at 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) 5,200 nautical miles at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
La Capricieuse was a ship of the French Élan-class minesweeping sloops (Avisos dragueur de mines). She was built by Chantiers Dubigeon at Nantes and launched on 19 April 1939.[2]
After the Fall of France she was at Portsmouth and on 3 July 1940 she was seized by the Royal Navy.[2] She served in the Royal Navy as HMS La Capricieuse until June 1945 when she was restored to the French Navy.[2] She continued in service after the war and was scrapped in September 1964.[2]
Notes
Sources
- Le Masson, Henri (1969). The French Navy. Navies of the Second World War 2. London: MacDonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd. pp. 16–17. ISBN 9780356023847.
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