French destroyer Mistral

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Sister ship Ouragan underway before 1942
History
France
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
General characteristics
Class & 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:
Propulsion:
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:

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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