 Mogador
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| History | |
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 France | |
| Name | Mogador |
| Namesake | Mogador, Morocco |
| Builder | Arsenal de Lorient |
| Laid down | 28 December 1934 |
| Launched | 9 June 1937 |
| Commissioned | 8 April 1939 |
| Fate | Scuttled, 27 November 1942, scrapped 1949 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Mogador-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 2,997 t (2,950 long tons) (standard) |
| Length | 137.5 m (451 ft 1 in) |
| Beam | 12.57 m (41 ft 3 in) |
| Draft | 4.74 m (15 ft 7 in) |
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| Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines |
| Speed | 39 knots (72 km/h; 45 mph) |
| Range | 4,345 nmi (8,047 km; 5,000 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement | 12 officers, 226 men |
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Mogador was the lead ship of the French Navy's Mogador class of large destroyers (contre-torpilleurs). Named after the Moroccan town, she was built before the outbreak of World War II. The ship was heavily damaged during the British attack on Mers-el-Kébir on 3 July 1940, but was later repaired and sailed to Toulon. She was scuttled in Toulon Harbor when the Germans tried to seize her, along with the rest of the fleet, on 27 November 1942.
Mogador and her sister ship Volta were the last contre-torpilleurs built by the French Navy, a not entirely successful attempt to build a ship capable of out-fighting every other ship below her tonnage. "In technological terms Mogador and Volta were ships with the armament of a light cruiser in the hull of destroyer; the contre-torpilleur as a type had been pushed past the limits of its capabilities."[1]
- ^ Jordan, p. 59