Le Terrible (ship, 1933)

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Le Terrible
Le Terrible (between 1950 and 1962)
Le Terrible (between 1950 and 1962)
Ship data
flag FranceFrance (national flag of the sea) France Free France
Free FranceFree France 
Ship type Large Destroyer
class Le Fantasque class
Shipyard Chantiers Navals Français, Blainville-sur-Orne
Ateliers et Chantiers de Bretagne, Nantes
Keel laying December 8, 1931
Launch November 30, 1933
Commissioning October 1, 1935
Whereabouts Removed from the fleet list on June 29, 1962 and canceled in 1963
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 Le Terrible (in German: "The Terrible") was a large destroyer ( French Contre-Torpilleurs) of the Le Fantasque class of the French Navy . She survived the war and was only removed from the fleet list on June 29, 1962 and canceled a year later.

Machine system

The drive system of the Le Terrible 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.

During a test run, the Le Terrible reached a speed of 45.02 kn (83.38 km / h) and thus set a new speed record for ships with conventionally built hulls.

Armament

The main artillery of the Le Terrible 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 Le Terrible had four 3.7 cm anti-aircraft guns (L / 60) of the 1925 model in single installation and four machine guns 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 anti-submarine defense, the Le Terrible had two depth charges at the stern and it was possible to accommodate up to 40 sea mines.

Classification

The Le Terrible was built and classified as a major destroyer. Because of her size and above all her speed, she was reclassified as a light cruiser , like all ships of the Le Fantasque class, on November 28, 1943 . In 1951, the ship was reclassified as a 1st class rapid escort destroyer (French destroyer-escorteurs de 1re classe). The Le Terrible was classified as an escort for French aircraft carriers. In 1953 he was reclassified as a fast escort (French escorteur rapide).

Whereabouts

The Le Terrible reached Brest on August 28, 1954 and was used as a stationary training ship for the École navale from September 1, 1954 . On December 1, 1956, she was transferred to the reserve and deleted from the fleet list on June 29, 1962. The Le Terrible was canceled in 1963.

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 Terrible  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ Mike J. Whitley: Destroyers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia . Naval Institute Press, Annapolis 1988, ISBN 0-87021-326-1 page 42.
  2. ↑ 138.6 mm / 40 (5.46 ") Model 1927 gun data from navweaps.com. Accessed October 22, 2019. (English)
  3. ↑ 23 DT, Toulon torpedo data on navweaps.com. Retrieved October 22, 2019.