French destroyer Tornade

Sister ship Ouragan underway before 1942
History
France
Name:	Tornade
Namesake:	Tornado
Ordered:	5 March 1923
Laid down:	25 April 1923
Launched:	12 March 1925
Completed:	10 May 1928
Commissioned:	1 October 1927
In service:	21 May 1928
General characteristics
Class and type:	Bourrasque-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,320 t (1,300 long tons) (standard) 1,825 t (1,796 long tons) (full load)
Length:	105.6 m (346 ft 5.5 in)
Beam:	9.7 m (31 ft 9.9 in)
Draft:	3.5 m (11 ft 5.8 in)
Installed power:	31,000 PS (22,800 kW; 30,576 shp) 3 du Temple boilers
Propulsion:	2 shafts 2 geared steam turbines
Speed:	33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Range:	3,000 nmi (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Crew:	9 officers, 153 crewmen (wartime)
Armament:	4 × single 130 mm (5.1 in) guns 1 × single 75 mm (3.0 in) anti-aircraft guns 2 × triple 550 mm (21.7 in) torpedo tubes 2 chutes for 16 depth charges

Tornade was a Bourrasque-class destroyer (torpilleur d'escadre) built for the French Navy during the 1920s.

After France surrendered to Germany in June 1940 during World War II, Tornade served with the navy of Vichy France. She was at Oran, French Algeria, when the Allies invaded French North Africa in Operation Torch in November 1942. Resisting the invasion, she was badly damaged off Oran on 8 November 1942 by gunfire by the Royal Navy light cruiser HMS Aurora and destroyer HMS Calpe and was beached to avoid sinking.^[1]

Notes

References

• Chesneau, Roger, ed. (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7. 
• Jordan, John & Moulin, Jean (2015). French Destroyers: Torpilleurs d'Escadre & Contre-Torpilleurs 1922–1956. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-198-4. 
• Whitley, M. J. (1988). Destroyers of World War Two. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-326-1.