Verdun (ship, 1928)

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Verdun
Identical bison (ca.1932)
Identical bison (ca.1932)
Ship data
flag FranceFrance France
Ship type Large Destroyer
class Guépard class
Shipyard Ateliers et Chantiers de St Nazaire-Penhoët, Saint-Nazaire
Keel laying August 10, 1927
Launch 4th July 1928
Commissioning April 1, 1930
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 Verdun was a major destroyer of Guépard class of the French Navy . On November 27, 1942, the crew sank the Verdun in Toulon itself. The ship was named after the Battle of Verdun .

Machine system

The Verdun 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 Verdun consisted of five 13.86 cm L / 40 guns of the 1923 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 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 Verdun had six torpedo tubes in two groups of three for the torpedo 23DT, Toulon.

Whereabouts

After the defeat of France, the Verdun passed into 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. In September 1943 the ship was lifted, but no longer repaired. After the war the wreck was demolished.

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 : Guépard class  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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.