French destroyer La Combattante
Type III Hunt-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Haldon? — 19421,214 days of the war
- as La Combattante15 December 1942 — 23 February 1945801 days of the war
- Name
- HMS La Combattante
- Pennant / hull number
- L19
- Builder
- Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Glasgow
- Laid down
- 16 January 1941
- Launched
- 27 April 1942
- Commissioned
- 15 December 1942
- Fate
- Mined 23 February 1945
By mine (1945) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, full load
- 1,050 long tons (1,067 t)
- Length
- 85.3 m (279.9 ft)
- Beam
- 10.16 m (33.3 ft)
- Draught
- 3.51 m (11.5 ft)
- Speed
- 27 knots (50 km/h, 31.1 mph)
- Range
- 2,350 nmi (4,352 km)
- Complement
- 168
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS La Combattante was a Type III Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L19. Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Glasgow laid her keel on 16 January 1941. Launched on 27 April 1942, she entered service on 15 December 1942.
Displacement was 1,050 long tons. She measured 85.3 m (280 ft) long with a beam of 10.2 m (33 ft). Her designed speed was 27 knots, and she carried a complement of 168. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
She served with the Royal Navy as HMS Haldon until 1942. She then passed to the Marine Nationale, serving as La Combattante from 15 December 1942. She was in commission for 2,015 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 23 February 1945 by mine, at 53°22′N 1°02′E. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 19000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × QF 4 in Mark XVI on twin mounts Mk. XIX
- 4 × QF 2-pounder Mk. VIII on quad mount MK.VII
- 1 × QF 2-pounder Mk. VIII on single mount
- 3 × 20 mm Oerlikons on single mounts P Mk. III
- 2 × tubes for 21-inch (533 mm) torpedoes
- 110 depth charges, 4 throwers, 2 racks
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from French destroyer La Combattante on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Beadell, S J (Lt) — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//467/media-467125/large.jpg This photograph A 13891 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons