French destroyer Maillé-Brézé (D627)

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Maillé-Brézé at Nantes in 2022
History
France
Name	Maillé-Brézé
Namesake	Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé
Laid down	February 1951
Launched	October 1953
Commissioned	4 May 1957
Decommissioned	1988
Identification	D627
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 boilers 2 shafts Geared steam turbines[1]
Speed	34 kn (63 km/h)
Range	5,000 nmi (9,300 km) at 18 kn (33 km/h)
Complement	347
Armament	6 × 127 mm (5 in) guns (3 twin turrets) 6 × 57 mm (2.2 in) guns (3 twin turrets) 4 × 20 mm (0.79 in) guns (4 × 1) 12 × 550 mm (22 in) torpedo tubes (4 × 3)

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).

On 2 March 1962, Maillé-Brézé, along with another four destroyers, landed fresh troops at Algiers to fight the OAS upsurge.^[2] Assisted by her sister ship Surcouf, she was about to shell the OAS-held quarter of Bab-el-Oued when a counter-order called the operation off. The destroyers instead took battle stations close to the shore as a deterrent.^[3]

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.^[4]

On 21 February 2016, director Christopher Nolan announced plans to feature the ship in his then upcoming World War II film Dunkirk.^[5] In the film, she portrayed two British destroyers – sister ships HMS Vivacious and HMS Vanquisher – by simultaneously carrying the D36 pennant number of Vivacious on her port side and stern, and Vanquisher's pennant D54 on her starboard side.^[6]

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

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Maillé-Brézé (D627).

• (in French) Maillé-Brézé naval museum, Nantes
• Roll of Honour

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