Mogador (ship, 1937)

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Mogador
Grand Destroyer Mogador (X 61)
Grand Destroyer Mogador (X 61)
Ship data
flag FranceFrance (national flag of the sea) France Vichy France
France VichyVichy France 
other ship names

X 61

Ship type Large Destroyer
class Mogador- class
Shipyard Arsenal de Lorient, Lorient
Keel laying December 28, 1934
Launch June 9, 1937
Commissioning April 8, 1939
Whereabouts Sunk November 27, 1942
Ship dimensions and crew
length
137.5 m ( Lüa )
width 12.57 m
Draft Max. 4.74 m
displacement Standard : 2,950 ts
maximum: 3,220 ts
 
crew 226-238 men
Machine system
machine 4 × Indret boiler
2 × geared turbine Rateau-Bretagne SR
Machine
performance 		92,000 PS (67,666 kW)
Top
speed 		39 kn (72 km / h)
propeller 2
Armament
  • 8 × Sk 13.8 cm L / 50 model 1934 (4 × 2)
  • 2 × Flak 3.7 cm L / 60 model 1925 (2 × 1)
  • 4 × Flak 13.2 mm model 1929 (2 × 2)
  • 10 × torpedo tube ⌀ 55.0 cm (2 × 3)
  • 32 depth charges ,
    2 launchers, 2 drop racks
  • 40 sea ​​mines

The Mogador was a Mogador- class large destroyer of the French Navy . On November 27, 1942, the crew sank the ship in the port of Toulon itself. It was named after the Moroccan city ​​of Mogador .

Armament

The main artillery of the Mogador consisted of eight 13.8 cm L / 50 cannons of the 1934 model in twin turrets. This cannon could fire five to nine rounds per minute. As anti-aircraft armament, the destroyer had two 3.7-cm anti-aircraft guns of the 1933 model in stand-alone installation and four 13-mm anti-aircraft guns as twin guns. As a torpedo armament, the Mogador had eight torpedo tubes (two groups of three and two groups of two) for the 23DT torpedo , Toulon. For anti-submarine defense, the ship had two depth charges at the stern with a total of 32 depth charges. There were also rails for 40 mines at the stern.

Missions in World War II and whereabouts

The Mogador shortly after the hit

On July 3, 1940, the Mogador was in Mers-el-Kébir when the French ships were attacked by the British Navy in the port. The Mogador was hit by a 38.1 cm shell that detonated the depth charges at the stern. The shell penetrated the deck but did not explode itself. The Mogador's rear ammunition dump did not explode as a result. The stern superstructure and the deck itself were damaged by this hit. She also lost her left screw and the right one was damaged. The Mogador was towed to Oran and on June 17, 1940 repairs began in the local dry dock. Her rear turret (number 4) was removed, the drive was repaired and the structural damage was repaired. On December 1, 1940, she was able to drive to Toulon on her own. The general overhaul began in the dock there. During the overhaul, turret 3 was placed in the position of the missing turret 4 and the magazine from turret 3 was converted into an additional oil bunker. In addition, the air defense was strengthened and a new sonar installed. Due to a shortage of materials, this conversion should take until mid-1943.

On November 27, 1942, the Vichy fleet was scuttled and the Mogador was scuttled in the dock. The ship was lifted by Italy on April 5, 1943, but not repaired. At the end of 1944, the wreck was sunk again by bombs in an air raid. In 1949 it was lifted and finally scrapped.

literature

  • John Jordan: The Contre-Torpilleurs of the Mogador Class . Conway, London 2007 ISBN 1-84486-041-8 .
  • 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 : Mogador  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 138 mm / 50 (5.46 ") Model 1934 gun data on navweaps.com. Accessed November 5, 2019. (English)
  2. ↑ 23 DT, Toulon torpedo data on navweaps.com. Retrieved November 5, 2019.
  3. ↑ Mine Mine data on navweaps.com. Retrieved November 5, 2019.