Name Elan Fate scrapped Draught 3.28 m (10 ft 9 in) Length 78 m Beam 8.7 m | Struck 26 March 1958 Class and type Elan class avisos Launched 27 July 1937 Draft 3.28 m Builder Lorient | |
Displacement standard 630 tons
full load 740 tons | ||
Elan was the lead ship of the French Elan class minesweeping sloops (Avisos dragueur de mines). She was built by the Lorient shipyard and launched on 27 July 1938. She was interned in Turkey in June 1941 and released to the Free French Naval Forces in December 1944.
She remained in French Navy service after the war, was decommissioned on 26 March 1958 and scrapped.
References
French sloop Elan Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA