- is
retained in its name in
other languages,
including French (contre-
torpilleur),
Italian (cacciatorpediniere),
Portuguese (contratorpedeiro),
Czech (torpédoborec)...
-
Bourrasque was a Bourrasque-class
destroyer (
torpilleur d'escadre)
built for the
French Navy
during the 1920s. The
Bourrasque class had an
overall length...
-
series of six
classes of
large destroyers,
known in
French as contre-
torpilleurs, that were
designed to sink
opposing cruisers by
catching them with superior...
- 50
between light buoys 30 and 31. The
French torpedo boats Torpilleur 344 and
Torpilleur 350
patrolled the area
between buoy 31 and Cap Gris-Nez. A searchlight...
- The
Crozet Islands (French: Îles Crozet; or, officially,
Archipel Crozet) are a sub-Antarctic
archipelago of
small islands in the
southern Indian Ocean...
- The Mogador-class
large destroyers (contre-
torpilleurs) of the
French Navy were laid down in 1935 and
commissioned in 1939. They were
extremely fast,...
- reparations.
After the war, the term
escorteur replaced that of
torpilleur [fr] and contre-
torpilleur [fr]
traditionally used by the
French Navy. However, in...
- of
naval escorts, the
French Navy was
limited to a
fleet of
torpilleur and contre-
torpilleur (otherwise
known as destroyers),
along with a
number of avisos...
- L'Adroit-class
destroyer was a
group of
fourteen French Navy
destroyers (
torpilleur) laid down in 1925–26 and
commissioned from 1928 to 1931. They were the...
-
Volta was a Mogador-class
destroyer (contre-
torpilleur) of the
French Navy.
Named for the West
African river, she was
built before the
outbreak of World...
