![]() Chacal before 1940
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History | |
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Name | Chacal |
Namesake | Jackal |
Ordered | 26 February 1923 |
Builder | Ateliers et Chantiers de Penhoët, Saint-Nazaire |
Laid down | 18 Sep 1923 |
Launched | 27 September 1924 |
Completed | 28 July 1926 |
Commissioned | 1 May 1926 |
In service | 23 December 1926 |
Fate | Beached, 24 May 1940, near Boulogne-sur-Mer |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | Chacal-class destroyer |
Displacement |
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Length | 126.8 m (416 ft 0.1 in) |
Beam | 11.1 m (36 ft 5.0 in) |
Draft | 4.1 m (13 ft 5.4 in) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 35.5 knots (65.7 km/h; 40.9 mph) |
Range | 3,000 nmi (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Crew | 12 officers, 209 crewmen (wartime) |
Armament |
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The French destroyer Chacal was the name ship of her class of destroyers (contre-torpilleur) built for the French Navy during the 1920s. Initially assigned to the Mediterranean Squadron, she spent most of the following decade as a training ship. The ship was assigned convoy escort duties in the Atlantic after the start of World War II in September 1939 until she was committed to the English Channel after the Battle of France began in May 1940. Chacal was crippled by German bombers and artillery on 23/24 May and had to beach herself near Boulogne-sur-Mer.