Mistral in Royal Navy service as HMSMistral
History
France
Name	Mistral
Namesake	Mistral
Ordered	5 March 1923
Laid down	28 November 1923
Launched	6 June 1925
Completed	1 June 1927
Commissioned	5 April 1927
In service	21 January 1928
Fate	Constructive total loss 10 June 1944
General characteristics
Class & type	Bourrasque-classdestroyer
Displacement	1,320 t (1,300 long tons) (standard) 1,825 t (1,796 long tons) (full load)
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	31,000 PS (22,800 kW; 30,576 shp) 3du Temple boilers
Propulsion	2 shafts 2 gearedsteam turbines
Speed	33knots (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	4 × single130 mm (5.1 in) guns 1 × single75 mm (3.0 in)anti-aircraft guns 2 × triple 550 mm (21.7 in)torpedo tubes 2 chutes for 16depth charges

Mistral was aBourrasque-classdestroyer (torpilleur d'escadre) built for theFrench Navy during the 1920s.

TheBourrasque class had anoverall length of 105.6 meters (346 ft 5 in), abeam of 9.7 meters (31 ft 10 in), and adraft of 3.5 meters (11 ft 6 in). The ships displaced 1,320metric tons (1,300long tons) at (standard) load and 1,825 metric tons (1,796 long tons) atdeep load. They were powered by two gearedsteam turbines, each driving onepropeller shaft, using steam provided by threedu Temple boilers. The turbines were designed to produce 31,000metric horsepower (22,800 kW; 30,576 shp), which would propel the ship at 33knots (61 km/h; 38 mph). The ships carried enoughfuel oil to give them a range of 3,000nautical miles (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph).^[1]

The main armament of theBourrasque-class ships consisted of fourCanon de 130 mm (5.1 in) Modèle 1919 guns inshielded single mounts, onesuperfiring pair each fore and aft of the superstructure. Theiranti-aircraft (AA) armament consisted of a singleCanon de 75 mm (3 in) Modèle 1924 gun. The ships carried two triple mounts of 550-millimeter (21.7 in)torpedo tubesamidships. A pair ofdepth charge chutes were built into theirstern that housed a total of sixteen 200-kilogram (440 lb) depth charges.^[1]

WhenFrance surrendered toGermany in June 1940 duringWorld War II,Mistral sought refuge atPlymouth Dockyard inDevon,England. On 3 July 1940, the British executedOperation Catapult, in which they seized or destroyed French warships in French and British ports to prevent them from falling into German orVichy French hands. That day,Mistral was partiallyscuttled at Plymouth during the operation.^[2] The British later salvaged her and placed her inRoyal Navy service asHMSMistral.

Operating with the Free French Naval Forces in support of theAlliedinvasion of Normandy,Mistral was damaged by Germanartillery fire in theEnglish Channel offQuinéville,Manche,France, on 10 June 1944. She was declared aconstructive total loss.^[3][4]

• 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.
• Rohwer, Jürgen (2005).Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945: The Naval History of World War Two (Third Revised ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.ISBN 1-59114-119-2.
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