Name La Capricieuse Draught 3.28 m (10 ft 9 in) Length 78 m Beam 8.7 m | Class and type Elan-class aviso Launched 19 April 1939 Draft 3.28 m Builder Chantiers Dubigeon | |
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Fate Scrapped, September 1964 Displacement standard 630 tons
full load 740 tons Propulsion 2 × Sulzer marine diesel engines, 4,600 hp (3,430 kW), 2 shafts | ||
La Capricieuse was a ship of the French Elan-class minesweeping sloops (Avisos dragueur de mines). She was built by Chantiers Dubigeon at Nantes and launched on 19 April 1939.
After the Fall of France she was at Portsmouth and on 3 July 1940 she was seized by the Royal Navy. She served in the Royal Navy as HMS La Capricieuse until June 1945 when she was restored to the French Navy. She continued in service after the war and was scrapped in September 1964.
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