French frigate Tunisien
Appearance
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History | |
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Name | USS Crosley |
Namesake | Walter Selywn Crosley |
Builder | Dravo Corporation, Wilmington, Delaware |
Laid down | 23 June 1943 |
Launched | 17 December 1943 |
Commissioned | 10 February 1944 |
Identification | DE-108 |
Fate | Transferred to Free France, 11 February 1944 |
Stricken | 14 May 1952 |
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Name | Tunisien |
Namesake | Tunisian |
Acquired | 12 February 1944 |
Identification | T23 |
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Name | Tunisien (T23) |
Namesake | Tunisian |
Acquired | 14 October 1945 |
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Fate | Returned to the US Navy in May 1964 |
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Class and type | Cannon-class destroyer escort |
Displacement |
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Length | |
Beam | 36 ft 10 in (11.23 m) |
Draft | 8 ft 9 in (2.67 m) |
Propulsion | 4 × GM Mod. 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6,000 shp (4,474 kW), 2 screws |
Speed | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
Range | 10,800 nmi (20,000 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement | 15 officers and 201 enlisted |
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Tunisien (T23, F706), was a Cannon-class destroyer escort in service with the Free French Naval Forces and the French Navy from 1944 to 1964. She was scrapped in 1964.
History
[edit]World War II
[edit]The ship was originally built as USS Crosley (DE-108), an American named for Rear Admiral Walter Selywn Crosley. Crosley was transferred to the Free French Naval Forces under lend lease on 12 February 1944, and renamed Tunisien (T23).
Tunisien participated in Operation Anvil-Dragoon on 15 August 1944.[2]
Ownership of the vessel was transferred to France on 21 April 1952 under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program.
Algerian War
[edit]Tunisien participated in the Algerian War in 1956.[3] She was decommissioned and returned to the U.S. Navy in 1964 and scrapped.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Tunisien". Alamer.fr. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
- ^ "HMS Tunisien F706 ex DE108". Desausa.org. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entries can be found here and here.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to F706 Tunisien (ship, 1943).
- Photo gallery of 'Tunisien/Crosley' (DE-108) at NavSource Naval History
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- Cannon-class destroyer escorts of the United States Navy
- Ships built in Wilmington, Delaware
- 1943 ships
- Cannon-class destroyer escorts of the Free French Naval Forces
- World War II frigates of France
- Cold War frigates of France
- Cannon-class destroyer escorts of the French Navy
- Ships built by Dravo Corporation
- French naval ship stubs