Panthère (ship, 1924)

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Panthère
The Panthère at anchor in Marseille on April 25, 1927
The Panthère at anchor in Marseille on April 25, 1927
Ship data
flag FranceFrance (national flag of the sea) France Italy
ItalyItaly (naval war flag) 
other ship names

FRI 22

Ship type Large Destroyer
class Chacal class
Shipyard Arsenal de Lorient, Lorient
Keel laying December 23, 1922
Launch October 28, 1924
Commissioning October 10, 1927
Whereabouts Sunk on September 9, 1943 in La Spezia in the service of the Marina Regia .
Ship dimensions and crew
length
127 m ( Lüa )
width 11.2 m
Draft Max. 3.65 m
displacement Standard : 2,126 ts
maximum: 3,098 ts
 
crew 204 men
Machine system
machine 5 steam boilers
2 × steam turbines
Machine
performance
55,000 PS (40,452 kW)
Top
speed
35.5 kn (66 km / h)
propeller 2
Armament

The Panthère (German: Panther ) was a major destroyer of the Chacal class for the French Navy . On September 9, 1943, the crew sank the Panthère in La Spezia itself.

Machine system

The Panthère's propulsion system consisted of five steam boilers and two steam turbines . These drove the two screws via two drive shafts. The machines performed 55,000 WPS . This enabled a speed of 35.5 kn (about 66 km / h) to be achieved.

Armament

The main artillery of the Panthère consisted of five artillery pieces 13.0 cm L / 40 Model 1919 in single installation. This cannon could fire a 34.85 kilogram shell over a maximum distance of 18,900 m.

When it was commissioned , the Panthère had four 7.5 cm anti-aircraft guns of the 1924 model as anti-aircraft armament. These were located on the left and right amidships. Since the Chacal class top-heavy was, in 1932, both guns were against machine guns of the type mm 13.2 / 76 Hotchkiss M1929 replaced. These were mounted in two twin mounts.

As a torpedo armament, the Panthère had six torpedo tubes in two groups of three for the torpedo Mle 1919D. In addition, the ship had two water bombers at the tail for 20 Guiraud-Mle-1922-200 kg depth charges and amidships left and right two each depth charge launchers for 12-Guiraud Mle-1922-100 kg depth charges. The launchers on the left and right were removed in 1932 due to their unfavorable positioning. The space was supposed to be used for Ginocchio towed torpedoes. The project was discontinued in 1938.

Whereabouts

On November 27, 1942, during the self-sinking of the Vichy fleet , the Panthère was also in the port of Toulon . However, the ship was only in reserve and had an emergency crew on board. That is why it was one of the few ships that could be captured by the Germans almost undamaged. On December 14, 1942, the Italians took over the ship. On January 19, 1943, it entered service with the Marina Regia as FR 22 after Pierre Laval , Prime Minister of the Vichy government, approved the transfer. On March 23, 1943, the FR 22 was able to drive to Taranto under its own power and was used from there as a transporter. The trip made by Benito Mussolini , who on August 6, 1943 was translating from the island of Ponza to La Maddalena in Sardinia on the FR 22 , is remarkable . On September 9, 1943, shortly after the Cassibile armistice became known, the FR 22 was sunk by its crew in La Spezia itself. The wreck was demolished after the war.

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. 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 : Chacal class  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Footnotes

  1. 130 mm / 40 (5.1 ") Model 1919 gun data on navweaps.com. Accessed October 22, 2019. (English)
  2. French torpedoes torpedo data on navweaps.com. Retrieved October 22, 2019.