 Ouragan
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| History | |
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 France | |
| Name | Ouragan |
| Namesake | Hurricane |
| Ordered | 13 March 1923 |
| Builder | Chantiers Navals Français, Caen |
| Laid down | 7 September 1923 |
| Launched | 6 December 1924 |
| Completed | 19 January 1927 |
| Decommissioned | 3 July 1940 |
| In service | 15 September 1927 |
| Fate | Loaned to Poland |
 Poland | |
| Name | Ouragan |
| Commissioned | 17 July 1940 |
| Decommissioned | 30 April 1941 |
| Fate | Returned to the Free French, 30 April 1941 |
 Free France | |
| Name | Ouragan |
| Commissioned | 30 April 1941 |
| Decommissioned | 1943 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1949 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Bourrasque-class destroyer |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 105.6 m (346 ft 5.5 in) |
| Beam | 9.7 m (31 ft 9.9 in) |
| Draft | 3.5 m (11 ft 5.8 in) |
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| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
| Range | 3,000 nmi (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Crew | 9 officers, 153 crewmen (wartime) |
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Ouragan (French: "hurricane") was a Bourrasque-class destroyer (torpilleur d'escadre) built for the French Navy during the 1920s. During World War II, the destroyer began the war in service with the French Navy and was undergoing repairs at Brest during the invasion of France. The British Royal Navy towed the destroyer to the United Kingdom and commandeered the vessel following the French surrender in 1940. They transferred Ouragan to the Polish Navy which kept the destroyer in service for less than a year. In 1941, the Polish Navy transferred the destroyer to the Free French Naval Forces, which in turn, transferred Ouragan back to the Royal Navy in 1943. Ouragan saw no further action and was broken up for scrap in 1949.