French destroyer Tornade
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Tornade was a Bourrasque-class destroyer (torpilleur d'escadre) built for the French Navy during the 1920s.
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Name | Tornade |
Namesake | Tornado |
Ordered | 5 March 1923 |
Builder | Dyle et Bacalan |
Laid down | 25 April 1923 |
Launched | 12 March 1925 |
Completed | 10 May 1928 |
Commissioned | 1 October 1927 |
In service | 21 May 1928 |
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Class and type | Bourrasque-class destroyer |
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Length | 105.6 m (346 ft 5.5 in) |
Beam | 9.7 m (31 ft 9.9 in) |
Draft | 3.5 m (11 ft 5.8 in) |
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Speed | 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
Range | 3,000 nmi (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Crew | 9 officers, 153 crewmen (wartime) |
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After France surrendered to Germany in June 1940 during World War II, Tornade served with the navy of Vichy France. She was at Oran, French Algeria, when the Allies invaded French North Africa in Operation Torch in November 1942. Resisting the invasion, she was badly damaged off Oran on 8 November 1942 by gunfire by the Royal Navy light cruiser HMS Aurora and destroyer HMS Calpe and was beached to avoid sinking.[1]