Built as a destroyer by At. & Ch de France at Dunkirk, France for the French Navy.
28 August 1931 keel laid down.
16 April 1934 launched under the name Le TRIOMPHANT, one of the Fantasque class of which six were built for the French Navy.
Displacement 2.569 standard, 3.380 full load. Dim. 132.40 x 11.98 x 4.30m. (draught)
Powered by two Parsons steam turbines, 74.000 hp., maximum output 81.000 hp., twin screws, speed 37 knots, maximum 45 knots.
Range by 34 knots, 1.200 km, by 17 knots 6.600 km.
Armament: 5 – 138mm guns, 4 – 37mm AA and 4 MG – 13mm. 9 – 550mm torpedo tubes.
Crew 10 officers, 210 men.
25 May 1936 commissioned.
After the outbreak of World War II in the Operation against Norway.
03 July 1940 captured by the British Royal Navy at Plymouth.
28 August 1940 joined the Free French Navy (FNFL) under command of Capitaine de Frégate Wietzel.
From 3 September till 20 October 1940 armament changed with 1 – 102mm AA for 1 – 138mm gun., and the other armament increased with 2 – 37mm Pom-Poms, 4 – 37mm AA guns and 10 – 13mm MG.
February 1941 she came in collision with a cargo liner on Greenock roads.
30 July1941 departed from Plymouth bound for the Pacific.
February 1942 takes part in Operation G.R., the evacuation of Nauru and Oléan (Gilbert Islands). She arrived at Nauru from the New Hebrides on 23 February 1942, takes on board 61 Europeans, 391 Chinese and 49 members of the military garrison of Nauru.
Thereafter used as an escort for convoys to Australia. But her service iwas hampered by many engine breakdowns, which keep her for long time under repair in Australian shipyards.
08 February 1943 she rescued 8 crewmembers of the torpedoed British cargo vessel IRON KNIGHT from a raft.
December 1943 got heavy weather damage in a typhoon.
From April 1944 till May 1945 under repair in the USA.
May 1945 employed in the Indian Ocean.
After World War II took part in the French Indochina and Vietnam War.
06 March 1946 under command of Capt. Jubelin, she clears the road off Haiphong, Indo China, for the French forces to reoccupy the city.
06 December 1954 decommissioned.
Source: translated from http://perso.orange.fr/bertrand.daubigny/CTmal.htm