in Oran harbour to stop her being acquired by the Allies. Simoun and Tempête, based at Casablanca, joined the Allies in November 1942. They may have joined the battleship in engaging the Allied 'Covering Group', a taskforce based on the battleship . Trombe was the only ship of the class to be scuttled at Toulon in November 1942 alongside much of the French Navy. She was later raised, commissioned into the Italian Navy as FR31, and then re-transferred to the Free French on 28 October 1943. This destroyer was crippled (constructive total loss) by a fascist Italian MTM explosive motorboat on 17 April 1945 in the Gulf of Genoa. Notes References External links Bourrasque class on uboat.net "Mistral" : Un nom, une histoire Destroyer classes World War II destroyers of France Ship classes of the French Navy