French destroyer Orage
Sister ship Ouragan underway before 1942 | |
History | |
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France | |
Name: | Orage |
Namesake: | Thunderstorm |
Ordered: | 13 March 1923 |
Laid down: | 20 August 1923 |
Launched: | 30 August 1924 |
Completed: | 1 October 1926 |
Commissioned: | 1 September 1926 |
In service: | 19 January 1927 |
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) |
Installed power: |
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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) |
Armament: |
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Orage was a Bourrasque-class destroyer (torpilleur d'escadre) built for the French Navy during the 1920s.
Notes
References
- Chesneau, Roger, ed. (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
- Jordan, John & Moulin, Jean (2015). French Destroyers: Torpilleurs d'Escadre & Contre-Torpilleurs 1922–1956. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-198-4.
- Whitley, M. J. (1988). Destroyers of World War Two. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-326-1.
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