Tartu (ship, 1931)
Type ship Vauquelin (left) and sister ship Tartu (right) in the port of Monte-Carlo (approx. 1935)
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The Tartu (named after Jean-François Tartu ) was a large destroyer ( French Contre-Torpilleurs) of the Vauquelin 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 .
Machine system
The Tartu's propulsion system consisted of four Penhoët boilers and two Parsons turbines . These drove the two screws via two drive shafts. The machines performed 64,000 WPS . This enabled a speed of 36 knots (about 71 km / h) to be achieved.
Armament
The main artillery of the Tartu consisted of five 13.86 cm L / 40 guns of the 1927 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 Tartu had four 3.7 cm anti-aircraft guns (L / 60) of the 1925 model in a stand-alone configuration and four 13.2 mm / 76 Hotchkiss M1929 machine guns in a double configuration. As torpedo armament, the destroyers had seven torpedo tubes in a group of three and two groups of two for the torpedo 23DT Toulon . For submarine hunting , the Tartu had two depth charges at the stern with a total of 36 depth charges and it was possible to take up to 40 sea mines.
Whereabouts
On November 27, 1942, the Tartu was in the port of Toulon. When German troops approached, the crew sank the ship in the port. The Germans officially abandoned plans to lift the ship on December 11, 1943. On February 4, March 7 and April 29, 1944, the wreck was severely hit several times in Allied air raids and the rest of the wreck was demolished on site in 1956.
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 9781612514086 .
- 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
Footnotes
- ↑ 138.6 mm / 40 (5.46 ") Model 1927 gun data from navweaps.com. Accessed October 22, 2019. (English)
- ↑ 23 DT, Toulon torpedo data on navweaps.com. Retrieved October 22, 2019.