Mistral 1939
Mistral 1944
| Name | No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Typhon | F C de la Gironde, Bordeaux | 9/1923 | 22/5/1924 | 6/1928 | scuttled 9/11/1942 | |
| Simoun | A C de St-Nazaire-Penhoët | 8/1923 | 3/6/1924 | 4/1926 | sold 2/1950 | |
| Orage | CNF, Caen | 8/1923 | 30/8/1924 | 12/1926 | sunk 23/5/1940 | |
| Tramontane | F C de la Gironde, Bordeaux | 6/1923 | 29/11/1924 | 10/1927 | beached 8/11/1942 | |
| Ouragan | CNF, Caen | 4/1923 | 6/12/1924 | 1/1927 | captured by UK 3/7/1940, to Poland (Ouragan), returned 4/1941, sold 4/1949 | |
| Cyclone | F C de la Méditerranée, Le Havre | 9/1923 | 24/1/1925 | 6/1928 | scuttled 18/6/1940 | |
| Tempête | A C Dubigeon, Nantes | 12/1923 | 22/2/1925 | 9/1926 | BU 2/1950 | |
| Mistral | F C de la Méditerranée, Le Havre | 11/1923 | 6/6/1925 | 6/1927 | BU 2/1950 | |
| Tornade | Dyle et Baccalan, Bordeaux | 4/1923 | 13/3/1925 | 5/1928 | sunk 8/11/1942 | |
| Bourrasque | A C de France, Dunkerque | 11/1923 | 5/8/1925 | 9/1926 | sunk 30/5/1940 | |
| Siroco | A C de St-Nazaire-Penhoët | 3/1924 | 3/10/1925 | 7/1927 | sunk 31/5/1940 | |
| Trombe | F C de la Gironde, Bordeaux | 3/1923 | 29/12/1925 | 10/1927 | scuttled 27/11/1942, to Italy (FR31), returned 10/1943, BU 2/1950 |
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Displacement standard, t |
1319 |
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Displacement full, t |
1900 |
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Length, m |
99.5 pp 105.8 oa |
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Breadth, m |
9.64 |
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Draught, m |
4.30 |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
Typhon, Tramontane, Tornade, Trombe: Zoelly geared steam turbines, 3 Du Temple boilers Simoun, Cyclone, Tempête, Mistral, Bourrasque, Siroco: Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Du Temple boilers Orage, Ouragan: Rateau-Bretagne geared steam turbines, 3 Du Temple boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
33000 |
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Max speed, kts |
33 |
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Fuel, t |
oil 345 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 2150(14) |
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Armament |
4 x 1 - 130/40 M1919, 1 x 1 - 75/50 M1922, 2 x 1 - 8/80, 2 x 3 - 550 TT, 2 DCT, 2 DCR (32) |
| Complement | 142 |
Ship project history: First interwar "standard" destroyers of French Navy were built under the 1922 program. They were outlined among the ships-contemporaries with a little archaic three-funnel outline profile. At the moment of laying down they carried strongest artillery in the world though its value was considerably decreased by low firing rate. Absence of sonar has appeared a serious lack. In the mid-thirties for stability funnels were shortened. Speed characteristics have appeared rather moderated: no more than 30kts at full displacement and to a beginning of war ships reached only 28-29kts.
Modernizations: 1931, all: - 1 x 1 - 75/50, 2 x 1 - 8/80; + 2 x 1 - 37/50 M1925, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76
1941 - 1942, Tornade: + 1 x 1 - 25/60 M1938, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76
1941 - 1942, Tramontane: - 1 x 3 - 550 TT; + 1 x 1 - 25/60 M1938, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76
1941 - 1942, Typhon: - 2 x 3 - 550 TT; + 1 x 1 - 25/60 M1938, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76, 1 x 2 - 550 TT
1943, Simoun: - 1 x 1 - 130/40, 2 x 1 - 37/50, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76, 1 x 3 - 550 TT; + 1 x 1 - 40/56 Bofors, 6 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon, radar, sonar
1943, Tempête: - 1 x 1 - 130/40, 2 x 1 - 37/50, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76, 1 x 3 - 550 TT; + 1 x 1 - 40/56 Bofors, 8 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon, radar, sonar
1943, Ouragan; 1944, Mistral: - 4 x 1 - 130/40, 2 x 1 - 37/50, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76, 1 x 3 - 550 TT; + 4 x 1 - 120/45 QF Mk IX, 1 x 1 - 76/40 QF Mk I HA, 3 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon
early 1944, Simoun: - 1 x 3 - 550 TT
Naval service: Bourrasque 29/5/1940 was mined off Ostend and sunk by German coastal guns off Nieuport. Cyclone 31/5/1940 at Dunkirk was damaged by German MTB S24 and lost fore end. 18/6/1940 she was blown up in dock at Brest at the approach of German troops. Mistral 3/7/1940 was captured by British at Plymouth (though she was partly scuttled by crew at capture). Till 1944 she was used as TS and then laid up into reserve. Orage in the evening 23/5/1940 was damaged by German aircraft off Boulogne and sunk at next day morning. Ouragan 3/7/1940 was captured by British at Portsmouth. 18/7/1940-30/4/1941 she served under Polish flag, but really never commissioned. Some time she served as TS and then was laid up into reserve. In 1943 she was returned to France, but never commissioned by French Navy again. Siroco on the night of 31/5/1940 at Dunkirk was hard damaged by German MTBs S23 and S26 and sunk by German aircraft in the morning. During Allied landing in the North Africa in November, 1942 off Oran Tornade and Tramontane were sunk by gunfire of British ships (Tornade was sunk by cruiser Aurora and sloop Calpe and Tramontane beached being damaged by Aurora), and damaged Typhon was scuttled by crew at Oran. Trombe was scuttled at Toulon 27/11/1942, but salvaged by Italians. She received name FR23. After capitulation of Italy 28/10/1943 she was returned to France. 16/4/1945 off San Remo she was hard damaged by torpedo hit from German MTB.
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