French destroyer Maillé-Brézé (D627)
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,_Nantes-5146.jpg) Maillé-Brézé at Nantes in 2022
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| Name | Maillé-Brézé |
| Namesake | Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé |
| Laid down | February 1951 |
| Launched | October 1953 |
| Commissioned | 4 May 1957 |
| Decommissioned | 1988 |
| Identification | D627 |
| Fate | Museum ship |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | T 47-class destroyer |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 128.6 m (422 ft) |
| Beam | 12.7 m (42 ft) |
| Draught | 5.4 m (18 ft) |
| Installed power | 63,000 shp (47,000 kW) |
| Propulsion | |
| Speed | 34 kn (63 km/h) |
| Range | 5,000 nmi (9,300 km) at 18 kn (33 km/h) |
| Complement | 347 |
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Maillé-Brézé is a T 47-class destroyer (escorteur d'escadre) of the French Navy. She was built by Arsenal de Lorient in Lorient, commissioned on 4 May 1957 and named after the French admiral Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé (1619–1646).
History
[edit]On 2 March 1962, Maillé-Brézé, along with another four destroyers, landed fresh troops at Algiers to fight the OAS upsurge.[2] Assisted by her sister ship Surcouf, she was about to shell the OAS-held quarter of Bab-el-Oued when a counter-order called the operation off. The destroyers instead took battle stations close to the shore as a deterrent.[3]
In 1988, she was decommissioned and became a museum ship in Nantes. She has been listed as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture since October 1991.[4]
On 21 February 2016, director Christopher Nolan announced plans to feature the ship in his then upcoming World War II film Dunkirk.[5] In the film, she portrayed two British destroyers – sister ships HMS Vivacious and HMS Vanquisher – by simultaneously carrying the D36 pennant number of Vivacious on her port side and stern, and Vanquisher's pennant D54 on her starboard side.[6]
References
[edit]- Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995
- ^ "La propulsion et la fabrication d'énergie". www.maillebreze.com.
- ^ Labour research, Volumen 51, p. 112. Labour Research Department, 1962
- ^ Roche, Jean-Michel (2010). "Escorteur d'Escadre Surcouf" [Fleet Escort Surcouf] (in French). Netmarine.net. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
- ^ Base Palissy: PM44000601, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
- ^ Le Maillé Brézé vedette du prochain film de Christopher Nolan - France 3 Pays de la Loire
- ^ "Dunkirk (2017)". IMDb.
External links
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- (in French) Maillé-Brézé naval museum, Nantes
- Roll of Honour