- Notes
- References
{{Infobox ship image| Ship image=Milan 1936-1937.jpg | Ship caption=Half-sister Milan at anchor
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=France | France|naval}} | Ship name=Vautour | Ship namesake=Vulture | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched=26 August 1930 | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed=2 May 1932 | Ship commissioned= | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship identification= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship fate=*Scuttled 27 November 1942- Refloated
- Sunk 4 February 1944
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}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= (as built) | Aigle|destroyer}} | 2441|t|LT|0|abbr=on}} (standard)- {{Convert|3140|t|LT|0|abbr=on}} (full load)
| 128.5|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | 11.8|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | 4.4|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | 64000|PS|kW shp|lk=on|abbr=on}} | Ship propulsion=*2 shafts | 36|kn|lk=in}} | Ship crew=10 officers, 217 crewmen (wartime) | 3650|nmi|lk=in|abbr=on}} at {{convert|18|kn}} | 138.6|mm|abbr=on|1}} guns- 4 × single {{convert|37|mm|abbr=on|1}} anti-aircraft guns
- 2 × triple {{convert|550|mm|abbr=on|1}} torpedo tubes
- 2 chutes, 4 throwers for 44 depth charges
}} | The French destroyer Vautour was one of six {{Sclass-|Aigle|destroyer}} (contre-torpilleurs) built for the French Navy in the interwar period. In Vichy French service after France surrendered to Germany in June 1940, Vautour was scuttled at Toulon, France, on 27 November 1942 to prevent her capture by the Germans when Germany occupied Vichy France.[1] Later refloated, she was sunk again in an Allied air raid on Toulon on 4 February 1944.[2] Notes1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/44-02.htm |title=Seekrieg 1942, November |accessdate=3 June 2016 |last=Rohwer |first=Jürgen |authorlink=Jürgen Rohwer |author2=Gerhard Hümmelchen |work=Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart |publisher= |language=German }}
2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/44-02.htm |title=Seekrieg 1944, Februar |accessdate=3 June 2016 |last=Rohwer |first=Jürgen |authorlink=Jürgen Rohwer |author2=Gerhard Hümmelchen |work=Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart |publisher= |language=German }}
References- {{cite book|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946|editor1-last=Chesneau|editor1-first=Roger|publisher=Conway Maritime Press|location=Greenwich, UK|year=1980|isbn=0-85177-146-7}}
- {{cite book|last1=Jordan|first1=John|last2=Moulin|first2=Jean|title=French Destroyers: Torpilleurs d'Escadre & Contre-Torpilleurs 1922–1956|year=2015|publisher=Seaforth Publishing|location=Barnsley, UK|isbn=978-1-84832-198-4 |lastauthoramp=y}}
- {{cite book
| last1 = Saibène
| first1 = Marc
| year = n.d.
| title = Toulon et la Marine 1942-1944
| publisher = Marines Editions at Realisations
| location = Bourg en Bresse
}}- {{cite book|last=Whitley|first=M. J.|title=Destroyers of World War Two|publisher=Naval Institute Press|year=1988|isbn=0-87021-326-1|location=Annapolis, Maryland}}
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