Chacal or Jaguar' class Destroyer
Chacal class destroyer
Class Overview
Type:	Destroyer
Name:	Chacal or Jaguar
Number of ships:	6
General characteristics
Displacement:	2126 tons standard, 3098 tons full load
Length:	127m
Beam:	11.2 m
Draught:	3.65 m
Propulsion:	Geared turbines, 5 boilersgiving 55000 SHP
Speed:	35.5 knots
Complement:	8 officers, 196 men
Armament:	5x 130mm (15.1in) guns 2 x 37 mm /50 DCA - 3.7 cm Mod 1933 AA guns USS Lassen, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet or battle group and defend them against smaller, short-range attackers (originally torpedo boats, later submarines and aircraft). ... Image File history File links Chacal-1. ... USS Lassen, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet or battle group and defend them against smaller, short-range attackers (originally torpedo boats, later submarines and aircraft). ... 6 x 550 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes

The Chacal-class, sometimes known as the Jaguar class, were a group of six French navy large destroyers (contre-torpilleur) built commencing 1923. Designed as larger, more capable counterparts to the Bourassque class, they set a standard for French destroyer design until the mid-1930s. All were named for wild animals: Chacal means jackal, and the other five were named for big cats. The French Navy (Marine Nationale) is the maritime arm of the French military and the largest Western European navy in terms of personnel. ... USS Lassen, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet or battle group and defend them against smaller, short-range attackers (originally torpedo boats, later submarines and aircraft). ... The Bourrasque-class was a group of twelve French navy destroyers (contre-torpilleur) laid down in 1923 and commissioned from 1926 to 1936. ... Species Canis aureus Canis adustus Canis mesomelas Canis simensis Canis smithus A jackal is any of four small to medium-sized members of the family Canidae, found in Africa and Asia. ...

Ships

The class saw service in the Second World War. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

• Chacal - built by AT Ch de St Nazaire Panhoet, commissioned 12 June 1926. She was lost on 24 May 1940, being sunk off Boulogne by German aircraft. The wreck lies in only 2 meters of water in position 50.47.58N, 01.35.44E.
• Jaguar - built by Arsenal de Lorient, commissioned 24 July 1926. She was sunk on 23 May 1940 after being torpedoed by two German torpedo boats near Dunkerque. 13 members of the crew went down with the ship, another 23 were injured. The wreck lies in 8 meters of water in position 51.03.26N, 02.22.12E.
• Leopard - built by AT Ch de La Loire St Nazaire , commissioned 10 October 1927. This ship was seized by the Royal Navy in Portsmouth on 3 July 1940, and was transferred to the Free French on 31 August. She was stranded and wrecked north of Benghazi on 27 May 1943.
• Lynx - built by by AT Ch de La Loire St Nazaire , commissioned 10 October 1927
• Panthère - built by Arsenal de Lorient, commissioned 10 October 1926
• Tigre - built by AC de Bretagne Nantes, commissioned 1 February 1926

• Lynx, Panthere and Tigre were scuttled at Toulon on 27 November 1942 to stop her being requisitioned by the Germans. The Germans later raised them: Lynx was broken up for scrap metal. Panthere and Tigre were repaired and transferred to the Italian navy. Panthere was then scuttled again at La Spezia on 9 September 1943. Tigre, the only ship of the class to survive the war, was transferred once more to the Free French on 29 October 1943, and she was decomissioned on 4 January 1954.

Boulogne is the name of several communes in France: Boulogne in the Vendée département Boulogne-Billancourt, in the Hauts-de-Seine département Boulogne-sur-Mer, in the Pas_de_Calais département This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share... A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to launch torpedoes at larger surface ships. ... Location within France Dunkirk ( French: Dunkerque; Dutch: Duinkerke) is a harbour city and a commune in the northernmost part of France, in the département of Nord, 10 km from the Belgian border. ... The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore the Senior Service). ... Benghazi (Arabic بنغازي, transliterated BanġāzÄ«) is a seaport in Libya, Africa. ... Location within France Coat of Arms of Toulon Toulon (Tolon in Provençal) is a city in southern France and a large military harbor on the Mediterranean coast, with a major French naval base. ... Categories: Stub | Waste ... Map of Italy showing La Spezia in the northwest La Spezia is a city in the Liguria region of northern Italy, at the head of La Spezia Gulf. ...

References

• M.H Whitley, Destroyers of World War 2, 1988 Cassell Publishing ISBN 1 85409 521 8
• Chacal class on uboat.net