French sloop La Capricieuse

La Capricieuse
History
France
Name:	La Capricieuse
Builder:	Chantiers Dubigeon
Launched:	19 April 1939
Fate:	Scrapped, September 1964
General characteristics
Class and type:	Elan-class aviso
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) 3,000 nautical miles at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)[2]
Armament:	1 × single M1892 or M1932 100 mm/45 gun or 1 × twin M1926 90 mm/50 guns 1 × quad 13.2 mm/76 AA gun 2 × twin 13.2 mm/76 AA guns 2 depth charge throwers 1 depth charge rack

La Capricieuse was a ship of the French Elan-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.