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The French destroyer ''Chacal'' was a built for the French Navy during the 1920s. ==History== ''Chacal'' was launched in 1924 and commissioned in 1925. Her initial deployment was in the Mediterranean, but in 1932, she departed Casablanca for Brest and joined the Atlantic fleet; after being refitted from 1933 to 1935, ''Chacal'' commenced patrols to the north of Spain. When World War II started in September 1939, ''Chacal'' was at the Denmark Strait and patrolled the area to prevent U-boat attacks, and from 26 September, she acted as an escort on the British convoy route of Quebec-Southampton. After the unsuccessful pursuit of ''Graf Spee'', ''Deutschland'' and ''Scharnhorst'', ''Chacal'' returned to her ASW duties, contributing with HMS ''Salmon'' to the sinking of ''U-36'' off the Kola Peninsula on 4 December; after being damaged by two torpedoes of ''Salmon'' and left afloat all afternoon, ''U-36'' was depth charged by ''Chacal''. ''Chacal'' participated in the transport of gold bullion of the Banque de France from Brest to Quebec, operating in that duty until March 1940, when she returned to Brest; ''Chacal'' was there when Germany invaded France in early May. After combat with German aircraft and surface units, ''Chacal'' and her sister ship ''Léopard'' departed Brest on 18 May for operations in the evacuation of Dunkerque, steaming at full speed to Dunkerque and arriving on 20 May, transporting personnel and technical materiel to Cherbourg the next day. In the night of 21–22 May, ''Chacal'' and ''Léopard'' transported demolition charges to Dunkerque for use in destroying the military installations there; due to the imminent German advance, after completing offloading in Calais, ''Chacal'' and ''Léopard'' reached Boulogne for another transport mission (this time to Cherbourg), arriving in the early morning of 23 May. On 24 May, while still moored at Boulogne, ''Chacal'' and ''Léopard'' were attacked by German bombers; badly damaged, ''Chacal'' started to sink and the crew abandoned the ship. Finally, ''Chacal'' rolled over on her port side and sank by the stern eight minutes after being bombed. Of the 194 crewman of ''Chacal'', 178 were rescued by the trawler ''Messidor''. The badly damaged ''Léopard'' escaped to Cherbourg, under constant attack by German aircraft. In the 1970s, several parts of ''Chacals rusted hull were recovered and used in the steel industry. Today, the wreck lies at a depth of only three metres beneath the surface in the entrance of Boulogne harbour. The former control tower is visible with a section of the hull underwater, the remaining superstructure was dismantled and salvaged. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「French destroyer Chacal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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