The Guépard class propulsion system consisted of four Penhoët boilers and two Parsons turbines . These drove the two screws via two drive shafts. The machines made 73,738 WPS . This enabled a maximum speed of 38.46 kn (about 71 km / h) to be achieved with a displacement of 2,600 ts.
Armament
The main artillery of the Guépard class consisted of five 13.86 cm L / 40 guns of the 1923 model in a stand-alone configuration. This cannon could fire a 40.4 kilogram grenade over a maximum distance of 19,000 m. When they were put into service, the destroyers had four 3.7 cm L / 60 anti-aircraft guns of the 1925 model in stand-alone form as anti-aircraft armament. These were located to the left and right of the aft chimney. As torpedo armament, the Guépard class had six torpedo tubes in two groups of three for the 23DT Toulon torpedo .
Self-sunk in Toulon on November 27, 1942, lifted by Italy in early September 1943, sunk again by air raid on March 11, 1944, lifted and scrapped in 1947.
Ateliers et Chantiers de St Nazaire-Penhoët, Saint-Nazaire
May 5, 1927
May 19, 1928
January 1, 1930
Self-sunk in Toulon on November 27, 1942, lifted by Italy in 1943 and in service as FR 24 in the Regia Marina, sunk again in La Spezia on September 9, 1943 , lifted by the Navy and put into service, sunk in Genoa in 1945 .
Sunk in Toulon on November 27, 1942, lifted in September 1943, but no longer repaired.
literature
Jean Moulin: Les contre-torpilleurs type Guépard 1928–1942 . Marines Éditions 2010, ISBN 2-357-43049-4 .
Mike J. Whitley: Destroyer in World War II . Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-613-01426-2 .
John Jordan, Jean Moulin: French Destroyers: Torpilleurs d'Escadre & Contre-Torpilleurs 1922–1956 . Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley ISBN 978-1-84832-198-4 .