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French destroyer Tempête

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Sister ship Ouragan underway before 1942
History
France
Name: Tempête
Namesake: Tempest
Ordered: 5 March 1923
Laid down: 3 December 1923
Launched: 21 February 1925
Completed: 28 September 1926
Commissioned: 20 July 1926
In service: September 1926
General characteristics
Class and 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:

Tempête was a Bourrasque-class destroyer (torpilleur d'escadre) built for the French Navy during the 1920s.


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