An item referred to the magazine Revista Marittime dated June 1938 reporting that the French destroyer Le Hardi was launched on 4 May 1938. Her standard displacement was 1.772 ton, dimensions 117,20 x 11,10 metres and the horsepower 50.000hp. She was the first of a range of 11 destroyers of the same type now under construction in England, Germany and Italy.(1)
Note
1. Of the Le Hardi-class of which 12 were planned but just 8 completed, preceded by L’Adroit-class and succeeded by T 47-class. The Le Hardi-class was an answer on the Italian Navigatori-class destroyers and the Japanese Fubiki-class destroyers. Laid down by Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Nantes, France on 20 May 1936, launched on 3 May 1938, scuttled at Toulon, France on 27 November 1942, refloated by the Italian navy and renamed FR 37, uncompleted fallen in German hands at Savona in September 1943 and scuttled at Genoa, Italy in April 1945.
Note
1. Of the Le Hardi-class of which 12 were planned but just 8 completed, preceded by L’Adroit-class and succeeded by T 47-class. The Le Hardi-class was an answer on the Italian Navigatori-class destroyers and the Japanese Fubiki-class destroyers. Laid down by Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Nantes, France on 20 May 1936, launched on 3 May 1938, scuttled at Toulon, France on 27 November 1942, refloated by the Italian navy and renamed FR 37, uncompleted fallen in German hands at Savona in September 1943 and scuttled at Genoa, Italy in April 1945.
