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La Combattante Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
La Combattante (ex-Haldon)	L19	695	Fairfield, Govan, UK	1.1941	27.4.1942	12.1942	sunk 23.2.1945

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1050
Displacement full, t	1490
Length, m	80.5 pp 85.3 oa
Breadth, m	9.60
Draught, m	3.73 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Power, h. p.	19000
Max speed, kts	27
Fuel, t	oil 328
Endurance, nm(kts)	2100(20)
Armament	2 x 2 - 102/45 QF MkXVI, 1 x 4 - 40/39 QF Mk VIII, 1 x 1 - 40/39 QF Mk VIII, 3 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 x 2 - 533 TT, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (70)
Electronic equipment	type 271, type 285, type 286 radars, type 128 sonar
Complement	168

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Project history

British escort destroyer Haldon of Hunt 3 type, transferred to FNFL 15.12.1942. Transfer of two more ships of this class was assumed.

Modernizations

1943-1944, presumably: - type 271, type 286 radars; + type 272, type 291 radars

Naval service

La Combattante was lost from an underwater explosion in Humber mouth. The reason considers mining, though sinking of the ship by German midget submarine KU330 may been.



Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.