''Maillé-Brézé'' is a (''escorteur d'escadre'') of the
French Navy
The French Navy (french: Marine nationale, lit=National Navy), informally , is the maritime arm of the French Armed Forces and one of the five military service branches of France. It is among the largest and most powerful naval forces in t ...
. She was built by Arsenal de Lorient in
Lorient
Lorient (; ) is a town ('' commune'') and seaport in the Morbihan department of Brittany in western France.
History
Prehistory and classical antiquity
Beginning around 3000 BC, settlements in the area of Lorient are attested by the presen ...
,
commissioned on 4 May 1957 and named after the French admiral
Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé
Jean Armand de Maillé, Duke of Fronsac, Marquis of Brézé (18 October 1619 – 14 June 1646) was a French admiral.
He was born in Milly-le-Meugon, in one of the most powerful French families of the time; his father was Urbain de Maillé, Mar ...
(1619–1646).
History
On 2 March 1962, ''Maillé-Brézé'', along with another four destroyers, landed fresh troops at
Algiers to fight the
OAS upsurge. Assisted by her
sister ship , 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.
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.
On 21 February 2016, director
Christopher Nolan
Christopher Edward Nolan (born 30 July 1970) is a British-American filmmaker. Known for his lucrative Hollywood blockbusters with complex storytelling, Nolan is considered a leading filmmaker of the 21st century. His films have grossed $5&nb ...
announced plans to feature the ship in his then upcoming
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
film
''Dunkirk''. In the film, she portrayed two British destroyers –
sister ships and – by simultaneously carrying the D36
pennant number of ''Vivacious'' on her port side and ''Vanquisher''s pennant D54 on her starboard side.
References
* ''Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995''
External links
*
''Maillé-Brézé'' naval museum, Nantes
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Cold War naval ships of France
T 47-class destroyers
Ships built in France
Museum ships in France
Destroyers of the Cold War
1953 ships