FN Cyclone
same class as Sirroco above
Navy | The French Navy |
Type | Destroyer |
Class | Bourrasque |
Pennant | |
Built by | F.&Ch de la Mediterranee (La Seyne, France) |
Laid down | 23 Sep 1923 |
Launched | 24 Jan 1925 |
Commissioned | 1 Jun 1928 |
Lost | 18 Jun 1940 |
History |
Cyclone (Capt.
Yves François Charles Anne Marie
Urvoy de Portzamparc) was torpedoed and badly damaged by the German
motor torpedo boat
S-24
on 30 May 1940. Scuttled at Brest on 18th June 1940 to prevent her capture by the Germans.3 Crew died of wounds at Ramsgate UK |