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{{other ships|French ship Milan}}{{Infobox ship image| Ship image=Milan 1936-1937.jpg | Ship caption= Milan at anchor
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=France | France|naval}} | Ship name=Milan | Ship namesake= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Arsenal de Lorient | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched=13 October 1931 | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed=20 April 1934 | 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= Lost 8 November 1942 | Ship notes= | Ship badge=
}}{{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}} | 68000|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- 1 × single {{convert|75|mm|abbr=on|1}} anti-aircraft gun
- 4 × single {{convert|37|mm|abbr=on|1}} anti-aircraft guns
- 7 × {{Convert|550|mm|in|abbr=on}} torpedo tubes (1x3, 2x2)
- 2 chutes, 4 throwers for 44 depth charges
}} | The French destroyer Milan was one of six {{Sclass-|Aigle|destroyer}} (contre-torpilleurs) built for the French Navy in the interwar period. ServiceFollowing the German invasion of Norway in April 1940, Milan escorted two convoys carrying French troops of the Chasseurs Alpins to Namsos and Harstad between 18 April and 27 April.[1] On 3–4 May 1940, Milan, together with the French destroyers {{ship|French destroyer|Chevalier Paul|1932|2}} and {{ship|French destroyer|Tartu|1931|2}} and the British destroyers {{HMS|Sikh|F82|2}} and {{HMS|Tartar|F43|2}}, made a sweep into the Skagerrak, but encountered no German shipping.[2] On 15 June she carried General de Gaulle from Brest to Plymouth on the first stage of his journey to London for talks with the British government.[3] After France surrendered to Germany, Milan served with the naval forces of Vichy France. She was at Casablanca in French Morocco when Allied forces invaded French North Africa in Operation Torch on 8 November 1942. She was in action with United States Navy TF 34 during the Naval Battle of Casablanca and was beached after sustaining shell hits from the destroyer {{USS|Wilkes|DD-441|2}}.[4][5] Notes1. ^{{Harvnb|Rohwer|Hümmelchen|1992|pp=17–18}}
2. ^{{Harvnb|Rohwer|Hümmelchen|1992|p=19}}
3. ^{{cite book|last1=Montagnon|first1=Pierre|title=La France dans la guerre de 39-45|date=2009|publisher=Pygmalion|location=Paris|isbn=978-2-7564-0044-0}}
4. ^{{cite book|last1=Le Masson|first1=Henri|title=Navies of the Second World War The French Navy Volume 1|date=1969|publisher=Macdonald|location=London|isbn=0356023842|page=113}}
5. ^{{Harvnb|Rohwer|Hümmelchen|1992|p=175}}
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=O'Hara|first1=Vincent P.|title=Struggle for the Middle Sea|date=2013|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=New York|isbn=9781612514086}}
- {{cite book|last1=Rohwer|first1=Jürgen|last2=Hümmelchen|first2=Gerhard|title=Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945|year=1992|publisher=Greenhill Books|location=London|isbn=1-85367-117-7|ref=harv}}
- {{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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