FN Ouragan
Navy: | French Navy |
Type: | Destroyer |
Class: | Bourrasque |
Pennant: | |
Built by: | Chantiers Navals Francais (Caen, France) |
Laid down: | 3 Apr, 1923 |
Launched: | 6 Dec, 1924 |
Commissioned: | 19 Jan, 1927 |
End service: | 07 April 1949 |
History: | This ship was undergoing
boiler repairs in a northern French port when Germany invaded France. The British towed it across the channel to the Devonport Dockyard where the repairs were completed Seized on 3 July 1940 by the British while moored in Plymouth. Transferred to the Polish Navy on 17 July 1940. Transferred to the Free French on 30 April 1941. Decomissioned 7 April 1949. |