L'Indomptable (ship, 1933)

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L'Indomptable
L'Indomptable (ca.1939)
L'Indomptable (ca.1939)
Ship data
flag FranceFrance (national flag of the sea) France
other ship names

15, 7, X81

Ship type Large Destroyer
class Le Fantasque class
Shipyard Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée , La Seyne-sur-Mer
Keel laying January 25, 1932
Launch December 7, 1933
Commissioning February 10, 1936
Whereabouts Sunk on November 27, 1942
Ship dimensions and crew
length
132.4 m ( Lüa )
width 12 m
Draft Max. 4.5 m
displacement Standard : 2,569 ts
maximum: 3,417 ts
 
crew 265 men
Machine system
machine 4 × water tube boilers
2 × Parsons turbines
Machine
performance 		74,000 PS (54,427 kW)
Top
speed 		37 kn (69 km / h)
propeller 2
Armament

The L'Indomptable (German: Die Unbeugsame) was a large destroyer ( French Contre-Torpilleurs) of the Le Fantasque class of the French Navy . She was one of the ships that was sunk by her crew on November 27, 1942 when the Vichy fleet sank in the port of Toulon . The L'Indomptable was the second ship to be named in the French Navy. The first was the 80-gun ship of the line Indomptable , which was launched in 1790. This Indomptable took part in several major naval battles such as B. the naval battle of the 13th Prairial and the Battle of Trafalgar .

Machine system

The drive system of the L'Indomptable consisted of four water tube boilers and two Parsons turbines . These drove the two screws via two drive shafts. The machines performed 74,000 WPS . This enabled a speed of 37 knots (about 67 km / h) to be achieved.

Armament

The main artillery of the L'Indomptable consisted of five 13.86 cm L / 40 cannons of the 1929 model in individual installation. This cannon could fire a 40.4 kilogram grenade over a maximum distance of 19,000 m. As anti-aircraft armament, the L'Indomptable had four 3.7 cm anti-aircraft guns (L / 60) of the 1925 model in single installation and four 13.2 mm / 76 Hotchkiss M1929 in double installation. As a torpedo armament, the destroyer had nine torpedo tubes in three groups of three for the torpedo 23DT Toulon . For submarine defense possessed L'Indomptable two water bombers at the tail and there was the opportunity to take to 40 sea mines.

Whereabouts

Map of the sunken ships in Toulon in 1942

On November 27, 1942, the L'Indomptable was in the port of Toulon. When German troops approached, the crew sank the ship in the port. The Germans lifted the ship and planned to put it back into service as SG9. On February 4, March 7 and April 29, 1944, the ship was severely damaged several times in Allied air raids and was abandoned. In July 1945 her bow was used as a replacement for the damaged sister ship Le Malin . The rest of the wreck was demolished on site in 1950.

literature

  • Roger Chesneau: Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946 . Conway Maritime Press, Greenwich 1980, ISBN 0-85177-146-7 .
  • Vincent P. O'Hara: Struggle for the Middle Sea . Institute Press, New York 2013. ISBN 978-1-61251-408-6 .
  • Mike J. Whitley: Destroyer in World War II. Technology, classes, types . 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 .

Web links

Commons : Le Fantasque class  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 138.6 mm / 40 (5.46 ") Model 1927 gun data from navweaps.com. Accessed October 22, 2019. (English)
  2. ↑ 23 DT, Toulon torpedo data on navweaps.com. Retrieved October 22, 2019.