| Navy | The French Navy |
| Type | Torpedo boat |
| Class | La Melpoméne |
| Pennant | |
| Built by | Ch Maritime du Sud Ost (Bordeaux, France) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 18 Oct 1934 |
| Launched | 28 Jan 1936 |
| Commissioned | 1 Apr 1938 |
| End service | 27 Nov 1942 |
| History | Scuttled at Toulon on 27 November 1942 to prevent her capture by the Germans. |
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Notable events involving La Bayonnaise include:
11 May 1941
HMS Truant (Lt.Cdr. H.A.V. Haggard, RN) and the Vichy-French merchant Gallium (1775 GRT, built 1924) are intercepted by a Vichy French force of one destroyer and four submarines. Gallium contacted the destroyer and then set course to follow the French force.
0150A/11 - In position 36°50'N, 00°45'W, sighted a French destroyer and four submarines in line ahead. (This was the Vichy French torpedo boat La Bayonnaise and the submarines Antiope, Diane, Eurydice and Thetis.)
0158A/11 - Gallium signalled the destroyer that she had been seized by the British submarine.
0200A/11 - The French destroyer ordered Gallium to follow her. Gallium proceeded accordingly.
0220A/11 - Truant signalled a protest to the French destroyer that Gallium had been ordered to proceed to Gibraltar for examination. The destroyer replied that she had been ordered to escort Gallium to France. (1)
Sources
- ADM 199/1861
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.