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French sloop Elan

History
France
Name: Elan
Builder: Lorient
Launched: 27 July 1938
Struck: 26 March 1958
Fate: scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type: Elan class avisos
Displacement:
  • standard 630 tons
  • full load 740 tons
Length:
  • 78.30 m (256 ft 11 in) o/a
  • 73.81 m (242 ft 2 in) p/p
Beam: 8.70 m (28 ft 7 in)
Draught: 3.28 m (10 ft 9 in)
Propulsion: 2 × Sulzer marine diesel engines, 4,600 hp (3,430 kW), 2 shafts
Speed: 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Range:
  • 10,000 nautical miles at 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph)
  • 5,200 nautical miles at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
  • 3,000 nautical miles at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Armament:

Elan was the lead ship of the French Elan class minesweeping sloops (Avisos dragueur de mines). She was built by the Lorient shipyard and launched on 27 July 1938. She was interned in Turkey in June 1941 and released to the Free French Naval Forces in December 1944.

She remained in French Navy service after the war, was decommissioned on 26 March 1958 and scrapped.


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