Vauban (ship, 1930)

Vauban

The Vauban in the port of Villefranche-sur-Mer (ca.1939)

Ship data flag  France Ship type Large Destroyer class Guépard class Shipyard Ateliers et Chantiers de France, Dunkirk Keel laying May 22, 1927 Launch February 1, 1930 Commissioning January 9, 1931 Whereabouts Sunk on November 27, 1942

Ship dimensions and crew length 130.2 m ( Lüa ) 123.1 m ( Lpp ) width 11.76 m Draft Max. 4.68 m displacement Standard : 2,436 ts maximum: 3,220 ts   crew 224-236 men

Machine system machine 4 × Penhoët boiler, 2 × Parsons turbine Machine performance 73,738 hp (54,234 kW) Top speed 38.46 kn (71 km / h) propeller 2

Armament 5 × Sk 13.86 cm L / 40 model 1923 (5 × 1) 4 × Flak 3.7 cm L / 60 model 1925 (4 × 1) 6 × torpedo tube ⌀ 55.0 cm (2 × 3) 28 depth charges , 4 launchers, 2 dropping racks

The Vauban was a large destroyer of the Guépard class built for the French Navy . On November 27, 1942, the crew sank the Vauban in Toulon itself. The ship was named after the French fortress builder and Marshal Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban .

Machine system

The Vauban's propulsion system consisted of four Penhoët boilers and two Parsons turbines . These drove the two screws via two drive shafts. The machines made 73,738 WPS . This enabled a maximum speed of 38.46 kn (about 71 km / h) to be achieved with a displacement of 2,600 ts.

Armament

The main artillery of the Vauban consisted of five 13.86 cm L / 40 cannons of the 1923 model in a stand-alone arrangement. This cannon could fire a 40.4 kilogram grenade over a maximum distance of 19,000 m. As anti-aircraft armament, the destroyer had four 3.7 cm anti-aircraft guns (L / 60) of the 1925 model in stand-alone installation when it was commissioned. These were located to the left and right of the aft chimney. As a torpedo armament, the Vauban had six torpedo tubes in two groups of three for the torpedo 23DT, Toulon.

Whereabouts

After the defeat of France, the Vauban remained in the service of the navy of the Vichy regime . During the occupation of the rest of France by the Third Reich, the crew sank the ship itself in Toulon on November 27, 1942. On May 12, 1947, the wreck was lifted and demolished on site.

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 : Vauban  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information about the Vauban at uboat.net (English).

Footnotes

1. ↑ 138.6 mm / 40 (5.46 ") Model 1923 gun data from navweaps.com. Accessed October 22, 2019. (English)
2. ↑ 23 DT, Toulon torpedo data on navweaps.com. Retrieved October 22, 2019.