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French destroyer Jaguar : ウィキペディア英語版 | French destroyer Jaguar
The French destroyer ''Jaguar'' was a (''contre-torpilleur'') built for the French Navy during the 1920s. She spent most of her pre-World War II career as a flagship for various destroyer units. The ship was assigned convoy escort duties in the Atlantic after the start of the war in September 1939 until she was badly damaged during a collision in January 1940. Five months later, after her repairs were completed, she was committed to the English Channel after the Battle of France began. ''Jaguar'' was torpedoed by German E-boats on 23 May and had to beach herself; her wreck was written off as unrepairable. ==Design and description== The ''Chacal''-class ships were designed to counter the large Italian s. They had an overall length of , a beam of ,〔Jordan & Moulin, p. 22〕 and a draft of . The ships displaced at standard〔Chesneau, p. 267〕 and at deep load. They were powered by two geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft, using steam provided by five du Temple boilers. The turbines were designed to produce , which would propel the ship at . During her sea trials on 18 May 1926, ''Jaguar''s turbines provided and she reached for a single hour. The ships carried of fuel oil which gave them a range of at . Their crew consisted of 10 officers and 187 crewmen in peacetime and 12 officers and 209 enlisted men in wartime. ''Jaguar'' was unique among the ''Chacal''s in being fitted to serve as a flagship and equipped to accommodate the admiral and his staff of four officers.〔Jordan & Moulin, pp. 18, 22–27, 35〕 The main armament of the ''Chacal''-class ships consisted of five Canon de 130 mm Modèle 1919 guns in single mounts, one superfiring pair fore and aft of the superstructure and the fifth gun abaft the aft funnel. The guns were numbered '1' to '5' from front to rear. Their anti-aircraft armament consisted of two Canon de 75 mm Modèle 1924 guns in single mounts positioned amidships. The ships carried two above-water triple sets of torpedo tubes. A pair of depth charge chutes were built into their stern; these housed a total of twenty depth charges. They were also fitted with four depth-charge throwers for which they carried a dozen depth charges.〔Jordan & Moulin, pp. 27–33〕
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