French destroyer Tempête

History
Sister ship Ouragan underway before 1942
France
Name:	Tempête
Namesake:	Tempest
Ordered:	5 March 1923
Laid down:	3 December 1923
Launched:	21 February 1925
Completed:	28 September 1926
Commissioned:	20 July 1926
In service:	September 1926
General characteristics
Class and type:	Bourrasque-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,320 t (1,300 long tons) (standard) 1,825 t (1,796 long tons) (full load)
Length:	105.6 m (346 ft 5.5 in)
Beam:	9.7 m (31 ft 9.9 in)
Draft:	3.5 m (11 ft 5.8 in)
Installed power:	31,000 PS (22,800 kW; 30,576 shp) 3 du Temple boilers
Propulsion:	2 shafts 2 geared steam turbines
Speed:	33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Range:	3,000 nmi (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Crew:	9 officers, 153 crewmen (wartime)
Armament:	4 × single 130 mm (5.1 in) guns 1 × single 75 mm (3.0 in) anti-aircraft guns 2 × triple 550 mm (21.7 in) torpedo tubes 2 chutes for 16 depth charges

Tempête was a Bourrasque-class destroyer (torpilleur d'escadre) built for the French Navy during the 1920s.

Notes

Chesneau, Roger, ed. (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
Jordan, John & Moulin, Jean (2015). French Destroyers: Torpilleurs d'Escadre & Contre-Torpilleurs 1922–1956. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-198-4.
Whitley, M. J. (1988). Destroyers of World War Two. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-326-1.

Bourrasque-class destroyers

French Navy	Typhon Simoun Orage Tramontane Ouragan Cyclone Tempête Tornade Mistral Bourrasque Siroco Trombe

Kriegsmarine	ZF4 (ex-Cyclone)

Regia Marina	FR 31 (ex-Trombe)

Polish Navy	Ouragan

Preceded by: Arabe class Followed by: L'Adroit class

List of destroyers of the French Navy

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