Schelde off Vlissingen, 15 June 2015
Built at the Arsenal de Lorient, France as a T 56 class destroyer to be used for weapon tests. Laid down in November 1958, launched on 12 March 1960, commissioned on 11 July 1962, decommissioned on 20 April 1990, 15 June towed towards Gent, Belgium to be broken up. In fact France’s first operational guided missile warship. Her armament consisted of 2 x1-3.9”/10cm guns, 6-21.7”/55cm torpedo tubes and 1 Malafon rocket/homing torpedo launcher. With a hangar and a landing platform for a helicopter. Displacement 2.750 (standard)-3.740 (full loaded) and as dimensions 132,8 (over all) x 12,7 z 5,4 metres or 435.7’ x 41.7’ x 18.0’.
