French destroyer Le Triomphant
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 Le Fantasque, sister-ship of the Triomphant |
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| Career (France) |  |
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| Namesake: | "Triumphing one" |
| Builder: | Dunkerque shipyard |
| Laid down: | 1931 |
| Launched: | 1934 |
| Decommissioned: | 6 December 1954 |
| Reclassified: | March 1943 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Le Fantasque class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 2570 tonnes |
| Length: | 132.40 m |
| Beam: | 11.98 m |
| Draught: | 4.30 m |
| Propulsion: | 4 Penhoët boilers 2 Parsons or Rateau engines 74,000 to 81,000 HP 2 propellers |
| Speed: | 45 knots (40 nominal) 37 knots after refit |
| Range: | 1,200 km at 34 knots 6,600 km at 17 knots |
| Complement: | 10 officers 210 sailors |
| Armament: | 5 x 138 mm (5.4-inch) guns (2 forward, 3 aft) 4 x 37 mm AA guns (original) 4 x 13 mm AA machine guns (original) 8 x 40 mm Bofors AA guns (after refit) 10 x 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns (after refit) 9 x 550 mm torpedo tubes in three triple mounts 40 mines |
The Triomphant was a Le Fantasque class destroyer of the French Navy
Built in Dunkerque from 1931, she was launched in 1934.
She joined the Free French Forces in 1940. She was decommissioned on the 1954-12-06 and was scrapped in Bizerte in 1960.
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