French destroyer Mogador

Mogador
History
France
Name	Mogador
Namesake	Mogador, Morocco
Builder	Arsenal de Lorient
Laid down	28 December 1934
Launched	9 June 1937
Commissioned	8 April 1939
Fate	Scuttled, 27 November 1942, scrapped 1949
General characteristics
Class and type	Mogador-class destroyer
Displacement	2,997 t (2,950 long tons) (standard)
Length	137.5 m (451 ft 1 in)
Beam	12.57 m (41 ft 3 in)
Draft	4.74 m (15 ft 7 in)
Installed power	4 water-tube boilers 92,000 shp (69,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines
Speed	39 knots (72 km/h; 45 mph)
Range	4,345 nmi (8,047 km; 5,000 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	12 officers, 226 men
Armament	4 × twin 138.6 mm (5.5 in) guns 2 × single 37 mm (1.5 in) AA guns 2 × twin 13.2 mm (0.52 in) 13.2 mm (0.52 in) AA guns 2 × triple, 2 × twin 550 mm (22 in) torpedo tubes 32 depth charges and up to 40 naval mines

Mogador was the lead ship of the French Navy's Mogador class of large destroyers (contre-torpilleurs). Named after the Moroccan town, she was built before the outbreak of World War II. The ship was heavily damaged during the British attack on Mers-el-Kébir on 3 July 1940, but was later repaired and sailed to Toulon. She was scuttled in Toulon Harbor when the Germans tried to seize her, along with the rest of the fleet, on 27 November 1942.

Mogador and her sister ship Volta were the last contre-torpilleurs built by the French Navy, a not entirely successful attempt to build a ship capable of out-fighting every other ship below her tonnage. "In technological terms Mogador and Volta were ships with the armament of a light cruiser in the hull of destroyer; the contre-torpilleur as a type had been pushed past the limits of its capabilities."^[1]