French sloop Élan

History
France
Name	Élan
Builder	Lorient
Launched	27 July 1938
Stricken	26 March 1958
Fate	Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type	Élan-class minesweeping sloop
Displacement	standard 630 tons full load 740 tons
Length	78.30 m (256 ft 11 in) o/a 73.81 m (242 ft 2 in) p/p
Beam	8.70 m (28 ft 7 in)
Draught	3.28 m (10 ft 9 in)
Propulsion	2 × Sulzer marine diesel engines, 4,600 hp (3,430 kW), 2 shafts
Speed	20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Range	10,000 nautical miles at 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) 5,200 nautical miles at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) 3,000 nautical miles at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Armament	1 × single M1892 or M1932 100 mm/45 gun or 1 × twin M1926 90 mm/50 guns 1 × quad 13.2 mm/76 AA gun 2 × twin 13.2 mm/76 AA guns 2 depth charge throwers 1 depth charge rack

Élan was the lead ship of the French Élan-class minesweeping sloops (Avisos dragueur de mines). She was built by the Lorient shipyard and launched on 27 July 1938. She was interned in Turkey in June 1941 and released to the Free French Naval Forces in December 1944.

She remained in French Navy service after the war, was decommissioned on 26 March 1958 and scrapped.

Sources

• Le Masson, Henri (1969). The French Navy. Navies of the Second World War. Vol. 2. London: MacDonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd. pp. 16–18. ISBN 9780356023847.