In 1943, the Italians salvaged several ships, renamed the FR33 to 37, transferred to Genoa. The Volta had more chance and managed to leave the harbor with Strasbourg. Italy and UK by comparison, still had dozens of ww1 and pre-ww1 era destroyers in service.Two would receive new boilers and did serve for some time in the French Navy.
The Cassard received a supplement of AA artillery in 1940, with four 37 mm guns in twin mounts, 1 of 25 mm and four 13.2 mm MG mounts. by her crew at Toulon naval base in November, 1942. Their new turbines and boiler boosters gave them 74,000 hp with an operational cruising speed of 37 knots, easily exceeded in sea trials: The absolute world record, reached by the Terrible, was 45 knots.The Le Malin, le Terrible, l’Indomptable, l’Audacieux, le Fantasque, le Triomphant (names later used for the 1970s French SSBNs) were launched in 1933-34 and commissioned in 1935-36. graduate Destroyers (DD) National Archive # 19-N-31243. in November, 1942. Aventurier was broken up in 1940. Martinique in the West Indies.
They were scuttled in December 1942, then two were salvaged, repaired, and served under the Italian flag (Fr44 and Fr45) then also German (Ta12, Ta13). On 21 November in particular, with the Raid Force, they joined the Hood around Iceland to try to catch the Gneisenau and Scharnhorst.Both German ships retreated cautiously using heavy weather to their advantage. The Leopard went to the FNFL in 1942, and was reworked, with an additional fuel reserve added as well as additional AAA (American standards) for service in the Mediterranean. The Boulonnais, Brest, Brestois, Fougueux and frondeur were all sunk by Allied ships off Casablanca, as part of Operation Torch.
The last three French units were in Toulon. They repeated many of the previous configurations while innovating with two “pseudo-turrets”, in fact paired artillery pieces protected under extended masks opened at the back, comparable to “semi-turrets”. The destroyers were built in two types the large destroyers and the small destroyers. As a result, in the beginning of the 1930s the French Admiralty resumed a study of a modern torpedo boat for coastal defense operations and for the open sea. They were easily distinguished by their four heavenly spaced funnels, classic profile of French destroyers leaders. The anti-surface capability of the Mogador was taken care of, given their use as Dunkirk-class escorts. In addition, the turrets were heavy and caused stability issues detrimental as gun platforms. With a better ASW capability they could he been considered as destroyer escorts.When the armistice came, they were paradoxically assigned to the Atlantic. They were then sent in the Mediterranean before the Italian entered the war. Built between 1927-28 and 1929-30, these 6 squadrons of squadrons were named birds of prey (Aigle, Gerfaut, Albatros, Vautour, Epervier and Milan) succeeding the Guepard.
[citation needed] S They all received in 1940 a 25 mm AA gun and four 13.2 mm machine guns (one 37 mm gun and six double carriage guns for the Gerfaud).These six ships, Vauquelin, Cassard, Maillé-Brezé, Kersaint, Tartu and and Chevalier Paul succeeded the Aigle serie. It was typically armed with four- to five-inch (10 to 13 cm) guns, torpedoes, antisubmarine weapons, and light antiaircraft weapons for point defense.
She was sunk off Tobruk in April 1943.These six ships, Guepard (Cheetah), Valmy, Verdun, Vauban, Lion and and Bison followed quite closely the Jackal of the first series (1923-24). These large destroyers were in the same tonnage range as the smaller … They passed and operated for a short time under the Italian flag (Fr41, 42 and 43) then Germans after their capitulation and capture (Ta9, 10 and 11).They were all sunk in operations. Their range was 2150 nautical miles at 14 knots.These destroyers suffered a fate similar to that of the rest of the French fleet: Two were captured at Plymouth (Catapult operation) and later integrated into the Free French Navy, three were lost at Dunkirk in May 1940, another was scuttled on June 18 for avoid capture, three would be lost in November 1942 during Operation Torch (one scuttled, one sunk by US units).