Commandant Teste
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| Image:Commandant-Teste.jpg | |
| Career | Image:Civil and Naval Ensign of France.svg |
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | May 1927 |
| Launched: | April 12, 1929 |
| Commissioned: | 1932 |
| Fate: | Scuttled, November 27, 1942 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 10000 tonnes standard
11500 tonnes full |
| Length: | 167 m |
| Beam: | 27 m |
| Draft: | 6.7 m |
| Propulsion: | Steam turbines with 4 boilers, 2 shafts, 21,000 shp |
| Speed: | 20.5 knots |
| Range: | 6000 nautical miles at 10 knots |
| Complement: | |
| Armament: |
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| Aircraft: | 26 seaplanes |
The Commandant Teste was a large seaplane tender of the French Navy during the 1930s. Purpose-built with five cranes, four catapults and a spacious hangar (84mx27 m), she was designed to operate up to 26 seaplanes; alternatively she could serve as a tender for seaplanes from other naval vessels, or as a seaplane transport.
She was in Toulon when the Germans invaded the so-called "Free Zone" on the 27 November 1942. She was sunk in the Scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon to avoid capture by the Germans.
[edit] See also
- List of aircraft carriers
- List of World War II ships
- List of ship launches in 1929
- List of ship commissionings in 1932
- List of ship decommissionings in 1942
