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| Career
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| Ordered:
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| Laid down:
| September 1954
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| Launched:
| 5 november 1955
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| Commissioned:
| 15th of July 1958
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| Decommissioned:
| 16th of September 1977
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| Fate:
| Sunk as the Q580 target ship for the experimentation of the Exocet missile.
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| Struck:
| 30th of May 1986
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| General Characteristics
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| Displacement:
| 3750 t
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| Length:
| 128 m
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| Width:
| 12 m
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| Beam:
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| Draught:
| 5 m
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| Propulsion:
| Two Rateau Turbines providing 63000 HP
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| Speed:
| 32 knots
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| Range:
| 5000 nautical miles at 18 knts
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| Complement:
| 19 officers and 328 men.
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| Armament:
| 6 x 127mm AA guns (II x 3)
6 x 57mm AA guns (II x 3)
2 x 20mm AA guns (I x 2) ("gull guns" in French Navy slang)
1 Bofors sextuple rocket launcher (ASM)
6 torpedo tubes 550mm (III x 4) ASM
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| Detection:
| 1 general sentry radar DRBV22A
1 surface and navigation sentry radar DRBV31
1 altimetry radar DRBI10B
2 targetting radars DRBC30
ASM detection : DUBA 1B and DUBV 1B (1 DUBV24 from 1970)
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| Motto:
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The fleet escort Jauréguiberry (D637) was a French destroyer of the T53 class, designed for anti-air and (to a lesser extend) anti-submarine roles. She was the second French Navy vessel to bear the name.
In 1966 and 1968, she was involved in two nuclear tests with "Force Alpha", and a third one in 1970 with the cruiser De Grasse, in the Pacific Ocean. In 1974, she archived a long mission with the friagte Duquesne.
In 1977, a few weeks before being decommissioned, she was used for the film "Le Crabe Tambour" by Pierre Schoendoerffer.
