Aigle-class destroyer
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The Aigle-class destroyers (Script error: No such module "Lang".) were built for the French Navy during the 1930s.
Design and description
The Aigle-class ships were improved versions of the preceding Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".. They had an overall length of Script error: No such module "convert"., a beam of Script error: No such module "convert".,[1] and a draft of Script error: No such module "convert".. The ships displaced Script error: No such module "convert". at standard load[2] and Script error: No such module "convert". at deep load. They had a metacentric height of Template:Cvt and their hull was divided by a dozen transverse bulkheads into 13 watertight compartments. Their crew consisted of 10 officers and 198 crewmen in peacetime and 10 officers and 217 enlisted men in wartime.[3]
The ships were powered by two geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam provided by four du Temple boilers that operated at a pressure of Script error: No such module "convert". and a temperature of Script error: No such module "convert".. The turbines were designed to produce Script error: No such module "convert". which was intended give the ships a speed of Script error: No such module "convert".. They comfortably exceeded their designed speed; the fastest of the ships, Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., reached a speed of Script error: No such module "convert". from Template:Cvt during her sea trials. The Aigles carried Template:Cvt of fuel oil which gave them a range of Script error: No such module "convert". at Script error: No such module "convert"..[4]
The main battery of the Aigle class consisted of five Script error: No such module "convert". Modèle 1927 guns in single shielded mounts, one superfiring pair fore and aft of the superstructure and the fifth gun abaft the rear funnel. Their anti-aircraft armament consisted of four Script error: No such module "convert". Modèle 1927 guns in single mounts positioned amidships. In addition Gerfaut and Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". were initially fitted with a Script error: No such module "convert". M1897-15 gun forward of the rear pair of funnels, but this was removed by the end of 1932. All the ships carried two rotating triple mounts for Script error: No such module "convert". torpedo tubes, one mount between the two pairs of funnels as well as another aft of the rear funnel. A pair of depth charge chutes were built into their stern; these housed a total of sixteen Script error: No such module "convert". depth charges, with eight more in reserve. They were also fitted with four depth-charge throwers, two on each broadside abreast the forward pair of funnels, for which the ships carried a dozen Script error: No such module "convert". depth charges.[5]
Ships
- Built by Ateliers et Chantiers de France, Dunkirk
- Launched 19 February 1931
- Completed 10 October 1932
- Scuttled 27 November 1942
- Refloated 10 July 1943.
- Bombed and sunk 24 November 1943
- Broken up in situ 1952.
- Built by Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne
- Launched 26 August 1930
- Completed 2 May 1932
- Scuttled 27 November 1942
- Refloated 17 January 1943
- Bombed and sunk 4 February 1944
- Broken up in situ 1951
- Albatros (3, 2, 5, 72, X73, X77, F762, D614)
- built by Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Nantes
- Launched 27 June 1930
- Completed 25 December 1931
- Decommissioned 9 September 1959
- Built by Ateliers et Chantiers de Bretagne, Nantes
- Launched 14 June 1930
- Completed 30 January 1932
- Scuttled 27 November 1942
- Refloated 1 June 1943.
- Partly scrapped June–September 1943
- Hulk bombed and sunk 7 March 1944
- Broken up in situ 1948
- Built by Arsenal de Lorient
- Launched 13 October 1931
- Completed 20 April 1934 -
- On 8 November 1942, off Casablanca, she was hit by Script error: No such module "convert". shells from the US fleet and had to be beached.
- Épervier (Sparrowhawk - 2, 5, X112)
- Built by Arsenal de Lorient,
- Launched 14 August 1931
- Completed 1 April 1934 -
- On 9 November 1942 she was sunk by Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". off Oran. She was raised, and eventually broken up in 1946.
Service history
Three of the ships (Albatros, Épervier and Milan) were stationed in Morocco as part of the Vichy French navy, and engaged Allied forces in the battle of Casablanca during Operation Torch. Along with the unfinished battleship Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., they engaged the Allied 'Covering Group', a taskforce based on the battleship Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".. Milan and Épervier both ran aground after being damaged in the battle; Albatros was damaged but, after her capture, was repaired after the war and used as a gunnery training vessel. Aigle was scuttled at Toulon, France, on 27 November 1942. She was later refloated and sunk a second time by United States Army Air Forces bombers on 24 November 1943. Later she was salvaged and scrapped. Vautour and Gerfaut were also scuttled at Toulon, but Vautour was raised again and sunk during an air raid on 4 February 1944.
Citations
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External links
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