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![]() La Combattante in January 1943
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Name | HMS Haldon |
Builder | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Glasgow |
Laid down | 16 January 1941 |
Launched | 27 April 1942 |
Completed | 30 December 1942 |
Identification | Pennant number: L19 |
Fate | Transferred to Free French Navy in 1942 |
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Name | La Combattante |
Acquired | 1 December 1942 |
Commissioned | 15 December 1942 |
Fate | Mined 23 February 1945 |
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Class and type | Type III Hunt-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,050 tons standard; 1,435 tons full load |
Length | 85.3 m (279 ft 10 in) |
Beam | 10.16 m (33 ft 4 in) |
Draught | 3.51 m (11 ft 6 in) |
Propulsion | 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 19,000 shp (14,000 kW) |
Speed | 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph) |
Range | 2,350 nmi (4,350 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h) |
Complement | 168 |
Electronic warfare & decoys |
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La Combattante ("The Combatant") was a destroyer[a] of the Free French Naval Forces (FNFL). A British-built Hunt-class destroyer, she was offered to the Free French in 1942.
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