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Name | Lansquenet |
Namesake | Landsknecht |
Ordered | 4 May 1936 |
Builder | Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde, Bordeaux |
Laid down | 17 December 1936 |
Launched | 20 May 1939 |
Commissioned | 1 June 1940 |
Stricken | 22 September 1958 |
Captured | 27 November 1942 |
Fate | Scuttled, 27 November 1942 |
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Class and type | Le Hardi-class destroyer |
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Length | 117.2 m (384 ft 6 in) (o/a) |
Beam | 11.1 m (36 ft 5 in) |
Draft | 3.8 m (12 ft 6 in) |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 37 knots (69 km/h; 43 mph) |
Range | 3,100 nautical miles (5,700 km; 3,600 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 187 officers and enlisted men |
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The French destroyer Lansquenet was one of a dozen Le Hardi-class destroyers built for the French Navy during the late 1930s. Placed into service after the French signed an armistice with the Germans in June 1940, she sailed to French Morocco to avoid capture. In November the ship helped to escort one of the battleships damaged by the British during their July attack on Mers-el-Kébir, French Algeria, back to France. Placed in reserve afterwards, she was scuttled to prevent her capture when the Germans occupied Vichy France in November 1942. Lansquenet was salvaged in 1943 by the Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy) and captured by the Germans after the Italian armistice in September. They scuttled the ship in Italy in 1945; she was refloated in 1946, but was never repaired. She was stricken in 1958, then scrapped.