French destroyer Siroco (1939)

Sister ship Le Hardi at anchor
History
France
Name	Le Corsaire
Namesake	Corsair
Ordered	24 May 1937
Builder	Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne-sur-Mer
Laid down	31 March 1937
Launched	14 November 1939
In service	1 July 1941
Renamed	Siroco, 1 April 1941
Captured	27 November 1942
Fate	Scuttled, 27 November 1942
General characteristics
Class and type	Le Hardi-class destroyer
Displacement	1,800 t (1,772 long tons) (standard ) 2,577 t (2,536 long tons) (deep load)
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)
Installed power	4 forced-circulation boilers 58,000 PS (42,659 kW; 57,207 shp)
Propulsion	2 × shafts 2 × geared steam turbines
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
Armament	3 × twin 130 mm (5.1 in) guns 1 × twin 37 mm (1.5 in) AA guns 2 × twin 13.2 mm (0.5 in) anti-aircraft machineguns 1 × triple + 2 × twin 550 mm (21.7 in) torpedo tubes 2 × chutes; 12 × depth charges

Siroco was one of a dozen Le Hardi-class destroyers built for the French Navy during the late 1930s under the name Le Corsaire. Although she was still under construction during the Battle of France, the ship sailed to French Algeria to avoid capture by the Germans. She was renamed Siroco in early 1941 while still under construction and was completed later that year and immediately placed in reserve. The destroyer was one of the ships scuttled to prevent their capture in November 1942 when the Germans occupied Vichy France. Siroco was salvaged by the Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy) and towed to Italy in 1943. Captured by the Germans after the Italian armistice in September, the ship was scuttled by the Germans in late 1944 and later scrapped.