Name Vautour Class and type Aigle-class destroyer Length 128 m | Namesake Vulture Beam 11.8 m (38 ft 9 in) Draft 4.4 m | |
Fate Scuttled 27 November 1942
Refloated
Sunk 4 February 1944 Displacement 2,441 t (2,402 long tons) (standard)
3,140 t (3,090 long tons) (full load) Builder Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée | ||
The French destroyer Vautour was one of four Aigle-class destroyer (contre-torpilleurs) built for the French Navy during the 1920s.
In Vichy French service after France surrendered to Germany in June 1940, Vautour was scuttled at Toulon, France, on 27 November 1942 to prevent her capture by the Germans when Germany occupied Vichy France. Later refloated, she was sunk again in an Allied air raid on Toulon on 4 February 1944.
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