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French destroyer Lynx : ウィキペディア英語版 | French destroyer Lynx
The French destroyer ''Lynx'' was a (''contre-torpilleur'') built for the French Navy during the 1920s. The ''Chacal''s were regarded as obsolete by 1935 and ''Lynx'' became a training ship for the torpedo school at Toulon that year. She was assigned convoy escort duties in the Atlantic after the start of World War II in September 1939. In July 1940, the ship was present when the British attacked the French ships at Mers-el-Kébir, but managed to escape without damage. After she reached Toulon, ''Lynx'' was placed in reserve where she remained for the next two years. On 27 November 1942, she was scuttled at Toulon when the Germans attempted to capture the French ships there. Her wreck was salvaged in 1944, but she was not broken up until 1948. ==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 20 April 1927, ''Lynx''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.〔Jordan & Moulin, pp. 18, 22–27〕 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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