French frigate Tunisien

History
United States
Name:	USS Crosley
Namesake:	Walter Selywn Crosley
Builder:	Dravo Corporation, Wilmington, Delaware
Laid down:	23 June 1943
Launched:	17 December 1943
Commissioned:	10 February 1944
Identification:	DE-108
Fate:	Transferred to Free France, 11 February 1944
Stricken:	14 May 1952
Free France
Name:	Tunisien
Namesake:	Tunisian
Acquired:	12 February 1944
Identification:	T23
France
Name:	Tunisien (T23)
Namesake:	Tunisian
Acquired:	14 October 1945
Reclassified:	Tunisien (F06); Tunisien (F706);
Fate:	Returned to the US Navy in May 1964
General characteristics [1]
Class and type:	Cannon-class destroyer escort
Displacement:	1,240 long tons (1,260 t) standard; 1,620 long tons (1,646 t) full;
Length:	306 ft (93 m) o/a; 300 ft (91 m) w/l;
Beam:	36 ft 10 in (11.23 m)
Draft:	8 ft 9 in (2.67 m)
Propulsion:	4 × GM Mod. 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6,000 shp (4,474 kW), 2 screws
Speed:	21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Range:	10,800 nmi (20,000 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement:	15 officers and 201 enlisted
Armament:	3 × single Mk.22 3"/50 caliber guns; 1 × twin 40 mm Mk.1 AA gun; 8 × 20 mm Mk.4 AA guns; 3 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes; 1 × Hedgehog Mk.10 anti-submarine mortar; 8 × Mk.6 depth charge projectors; 2 × Mk.9 depth charge tracks;

Tunisien (T23, F706), was a Cannon-class destroyer escort in service with the Free French Naval Forces and the French Navy from 1944 to 1964. She was scrapped in 1964.

History

World War II

The ship was originally built as USS Crosley (DE-108), an American named for Rear Admiral Walter Selywn Crosley. Crosley was transferred to the Free French Naval Forces under lend lease on 12 February 1944, and renamed Tunisien (T23).

Tunisien participated in Operation Anvil-Dragoon on 15 August 1944.[2]

Ownership of the vessel was transferred to France on 21 April 1952 under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program.

Algerian War

Tunisien participated in the Algerian War in 1956.[3] She was decommissioned and returned to the U.S. Navy in 1964 and scrapped.

References

"ex-Crosley (DE 108)". Navsource.org. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
"Tunisien". Alamer.fr. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
"HMS Tunisien F706 ex DE108". Desausa.org. Retrieved 24 April 2015.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entries can be found here and here.

External links

{{Commonscat|F706 Tunisien (ship, 1943)]]

Photo gallery of 'Tunisien/Crosley' (DE-108) at NavSource Naval History

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[navsource-1] "ex-Crosley (DE 108)". Navsource.org. Retrieved 23 April 2015.

[alamer-2] "Tunisien". Alamer.fr. Retrieved 24 April 2015.

[3] "HMS Tunisien F706 ex DE108". Desausa.org. Retrieved 24 April 2015.