French destroyer Siroco (1939)

Sister ship Le Hardi at anchor
History
France
Name: Le Corsaire
Namesake: Corsair
Builder: Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne-sur-Mer
Laid down: 24 May 1937
Launched: 14 November 1939
In service: 1 July 1941
Renamed: Siroco, 1 April 1941
Captured: 27 November 1942
Fate: Scuttled, 27 November 1942
General characteristics
Class & type: Le Hardi-class destroyer
Displacement:
Length: 117.2 m (384 ft 6 in) (o/a)
Beam: 11.1 m (36 ft 5 in)
Draught: 3.8 m (12 ft 6 in)
Installed power:
Propulsion:
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:

The French destroyer Siroco was one of a dozen Le Hardi-class destroyers built for the French Navy during the late 1930s. Built under the name of Le Corsaire, she was renamed Siroco in early 1941 to commemorate a destroyer of the same name sunk by the Germans during the Battle of France.

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