French destroyer Panthère
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The French destroyer Panthère was a Chacal-class destroyer built for the French Navy during the 1920s. Aside from cruises to the English Channel and the French West Indies, she spent her entire career in the Mediterranean Sea. The ship was assigned to the Torpedo School at Toulon in 1932 and remained there until World War II began in September 1939. She was then assigned convoy escort duties in the Atlantic and was being refitted when the Battle of France began in May 1940. After the surrender of France a month later, Panthère was reduced to reserve. When the Germans attempted to seize the French fleet there in November 1942, she was one of the few ships that was not scuttled and was captured virtually intact.
Panthère in Marseille, April 1927 | |
History | |
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France | |
Name | Panthère |
Namesake | Panther |
Ordered | 18 April 1922 |
Builder | Arsenal de Lorient |
Way number | No. 7 |
Laid down | 23 December 1923 |
Launched | 27 October 1924 |
Completed | 4 January 1927 |
Commissioned | 1 November 1926 |
Decommissioned | July 1940 |
In service | 4 February 1927 |
Captured | 27 November 1942 |
Kingdom of Italy | |
Name | FR 22 |
Acquired | After 27 November 1942 |
Commissioned | 19 January 1943 |
Fate | Scuttled and later scrapped, 9 September 1943 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | Chacal-class destroyer |
Displacement |
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Length | 126.8 m (416 ft 0.1 in) |
Beam | 11.1 m (36 ft 5.0 in) |
Draft | 4.1 m (13 ft 5.4 in) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 35.5 knots (65.7 km/h; 40.9 mph) |
Range | 3,000 nmi (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Crew | 12 officers, 209 crewmen (wartime) |
Armament |
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The Germans later turned her over to the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) who renamed her FR 22 when they recommissioned her in early 1943. The ship was scuttled when Italy surrendered in September and scrapped after the war.