French sloop Elan
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Name: | Elan |
Builder: | Lorient[1] |
Launched: | 27 July 1938[1] |
Struck: | 26 March 1958[1] |
Fate: | scrapped[1] |
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Class & type: | Elan class avisos |
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Beam: | 8.70 m (28 ft 7 in)[2] |
Draught: | 3.28 m (10 ft 9 in)[2] |
Propulsion: | 2 × Sulzer marine diesel engines, 4,600 hp (3,430 kW), 2 shafts[2] |
Speed: | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)[2] |
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Elan was the lead ship of the French Elan class minesweeping sloops (Avisos dragueur de mines). She was built by the Lorient shipyard and launched on 27 July 1938.[1] She was interned in Turkey in June 1941 and released to the Free French Naval Forces in December 1944.[1]
She remained in French Navy service after the war, was decommissioned on 26 March 1958 and scrapped.[1]
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