French destroyer Mistral
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Sister ship Ouragan underway before 1942
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Name: | Mistral |
Namesake: | Mistral |
Ordered: | 5 March 1923 |
Laid down: | 28 November 1923 |
Launched: | 6 June 1925 |
Completed: | 1 June 1927 |
Commissioned: | 5 April 1927 |
In service: | 21 January 1928 |
Fate: | Constructive total loss 10 June 1944 |
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Class & type: | Bourrasque-class destroyer |
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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) |
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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) |
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Mistral was a Bourrasque-class destroyer (torpilleur d'escadre) built for the French Navy during the 1920s.
Operating with the Free French Naval Forces in support of the Allied Invasion of Normandy, Mistral was damaged by German artillery fire in the English Channel off Quinéville, Manche, France, on 10 June 1944. She was declared a constructive total loss.[1][2]
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