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 La Combattante in January 1943
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Haldon |
| Builder | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Glasgow |
| Laid down | 16 January 1941 |
| Launched | 27 April 1942 |
| Completed | 30 December 1942 |
| Identification | Pennant number: L19 |
| Fate | Transferred to Free French Navy in 1942 |
 Free France | |
| Name | La Combattante |
| Acquired | 1 December 1942 |
| Commissioned | 15 December 1942 |
| Fate | Mined 23 February 1945 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Type III Hunt-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 1,050 tons standard; 1,435 tons full load |
| Length | 85.3 m (279 ft 10 in) |
| Beam | 10.16 m (33 ft 4 in) |
| Draught | 3.51 m (11 ft 6 in) |
| Propulsion | 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 19,000 shp (14,000 kW) |
| Speed | 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph) |
| Range | 2,350 nmi (4,350 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h) |
| Complement | 168 |
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La Combattante ("The Combatant") was a destroyer[a] of the Free French Naval Forces (FNFL). A British-built Hunt-class destroyer, she was offered to the Free French in 1942.
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