French destroyer Maillé-Brézé (D627)

For other ships of the same name, see French ship Maillé Brézé.

Maillé-Brézé at Nantes in 2002
Career (France)
Name:	Maillé-Brézé
Namesake:	Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé
Laid down:	February 1951
Launched:	October 1953
Commissioned:	4 May 1957
Decommissioned:	1988
Fate:	Museum ship
General characteristics
Class and type:	T 47-class destroyer
Displacement:	2,750 tons standard 3,740 tons full load
Length:	128.6 m (422 ft)
Beam:	12.7 m (42 ft)
Draught:	5.4 m (18 ft)
Installed power:	63,000 shp (47,000 kW)
Propulsion:	4 diesel boilers 2 shafts Geared steam turbines
Speed:	43 kn (80 km/h)
Range:	5,000 nmi (9,300 km) at 18 kn (33 km/h)
Complement:	347
Armament:	6 x 127-mm (5-inch) guns (3 twin turrets) 6 x 57-mm (2.2-inch) guns (3 twin turrets) 4 x 20-mm (0.79-inch) guns (4x1) 12 x 550-mm (22-inch) torpedo tubes (4x3)

Maillé-Brézé is a T 47-class destroyer (escorteur d'escadre) of the French Navy. She was built by Arsenal de Lorient in Lorient, commissioned on 4 May 1957 and named after the French admiral Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé (1619–1646).

In 1988 she was decommissioned and became a museum ship in Nantes. She has been listed as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture since October 1991.^[1]

References

• Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995

1. ^ (French) French Ministry of Culture database entry

External links

• (French) Maillé-Brézé naval museum, Nantes

Coordinates: 47°12′24″N 1°34′18″W / 47.20667°N 1.57167°W / 47.20667; -1.57167