French sloop Élan | |
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Name: | Élan |
Builder: | Lorient[1] |
Launched: | 27 July 1938[1] |
Struck: | 26 March 1958[1] |
Fate: | scrapped[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class & type: | Élan-class minesweeping sloop |
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Beam: | 8.70 m (28 ft 7 in)[2] |
Draught: | 3.28 m (10 ft 9 in)[2] |
Propulsion: | 2 × Sulzer marine diesel engines, 4,600 hp (3,430 kW), 2 shafts[2] |
Speed: | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)[2] |
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Élan was the lead ship of the French Élan-class minesweeping sloops (Avisos dragueur de mines). She was built by the Lorient shipyard and launched on 27 July 1938. She was interned in Turkey in June 1941 and released to the Free French Naval Forces in December 1944.[1]
She remained in French Navy service after the war, was decommissioned on 26 March 1958 and scrapped.[1]
Notes[]
Sources[]
- Le Masson, Henri (1969). The French Navy. Navies of the Second World War. 2. London: MacDonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.. pp. 16–18. ISBN 9780356023847.
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