French destroyer Lansquenet (1939)

Sister ship Le Hardi at anchor
History
France
Name	Lansquenet
Namesake	Landsknecht
Ordered	4 May 1936
Builder	Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde, Bordeaux
Laid down	17 December 1936
Launched	20 May 1939
Commissioned	1 June 1940
Stricken	22 September 1958
Captured	27 November 1942
Fate	Scuttled, 27 November 1942
General characteristics
Class and type	Le Hardi-class destroyer
Displacement	1,800 t (1,772 long tons) (standard ) 2,577 t (2,536 long tons) (deep load)
Length	117.2 m (384 ft 6 in) (o/a)
Beam	11.1 m (36 ft 5 in)
Draft	3.8 m (12 ft 6 in)
Installed power	4 × forced-circulation boilers 58,000 PS (42,659 kW; 57,207 shp)
Propulsion	2 × shafts 2 × geared steam turbines
Speed	37 knots (69 km/h; 43 mph)
Range	3,100 nautical miles (5,700 km; 3,600 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	187 officers and enlisted men
Armament	3 × twin 130 mm (5.1 in) guns 1 × twin 37 mm (1.5 in) AA guns 2 × twin 13.2 mm (0.5 in) anti-aircraft machineguns 1 × triple + 2 × twin 550 mm (21.7 in) torpedo tubes 2 × chutes; 12 × depth charges

The French destroyer Lansquenet was one of a dozen Le Hardi-class destroyers built for the French Navy during the late 1930s. Placed into service after the French signed an armistice with the Germans in June 1940, she sailed to French Morocco to avoid capture. In November the ship helped to escort one of the battleships damaged by the British during their July attack on Mers-el-Kébir, French Algeria, back to France. Placed in reserve afterwards, she was scuttled to prevent her capture when the Germans occupied Vichy France in November 1942. Lansquenet was salvaged in 1943 by the Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy) and captured by the Germans after the Italian armistice in September. They scuttled the ship in Italy in 1945; she was refloated in 1946, but was never repaired. She was stricken in 1958, then scrapped.