Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War

Marine Nationale — Destroyer class

Bourrasque-class destroyer

Bourrasque

The class in numbers

  • 12 Completed

Design and service

Type
Destroyer
Navy
Marine Nationale
Preceded by
French destroyer Enseigne Gabolde
Succeeded by
Adroit-class destroyer

Class specifications

Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.

As built
Displacement, standard
1,298 long tons (1,319 t)
Displacement, full load
1,968 long tons (2,000 t)
Length
106 m (347.8 ft)
Speed
33 knots (61.1 km/h, 38 mph)
Complement
145
Main gun
130 mm (5.1 in)
Armament
  • 4 × 130 mm guns
  • 2 × single 37 mm AA guns
  • 4 × single 13.2 mm AA guns
  • 2 × triple 550 mm torpedo tubes

Roster

Holding 1 of the 12 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.

Vessel Pennant Commissioned Fate
French destroyer Ouragan 1940 Scrapped 1949

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