French destroyer Milan
Milan at anchor | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| France | |
| Name | Milan |
| Namesake | Kite |
| Ordered | 1 July 1929 |
| Builder | Arsenal de Lorient |
| Laid down | 1 December 1930 |
| Launched | 13 October 1931 |
| Completed | 20 April 1934 |
| Commissioned | 31 December 1933 |
| In service | 18 May 1934 |
| Fate | Run aground after being struck by USS Massachusetts on 8 November 1942. Wreck scrapped post-war. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Aigle-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 2,441 long tons (2,480 t) (standard) |
| Length | 129.3 m (424 ft 3 in) |
| Beam | 11.8 m (38 ft 9 in) |
| Draught | 4.4 m (14 ft 5 in) |
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| Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines |
| Speed | 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) |
| Range | 3,100 nmi (5,700 km; 3,600 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Crew | 12 officers, 220 crewmen (wartime) |
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The French destroyer Milan was one of six Aigle-class destroyer (contre-torpilleurs) built for the French Navy during the 1930s. Together with her sister ship Épervier, Milan was to be built at the Arsenal de Lorient, but that shipyard was overloaded with work and construction of the two ships had to be postponed. Completed in 1934, Milan participated in the Second World War and was wrecked in the Naval Battle of Casablanca in November 1942 during Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of French North Africa.