La Cordelière was a small destroyer which was part of a series of 12 very similar units. The sixth of the series, La Cordelière was built at the Augustin Normand shipyards at Le Havre. Started on the ways in 1934, she was launched on September 9, 1936 and comissioned in 1938.
At the start of the WW2 war she was based in Brest. At German invasion La Cordelière (T111) was a part of the 11th division along with L’Incomprise (T112) and Le Branlebas (T113).

She participated in naval combats on the coast of Holland and Flanders, and finally the coasts of North of France. On 19 May 1940, she was seriously damaged by the explosion of a bomb that blew-up near the hull, stoving-in several frames and putting one boiler room out of commission. She had to be taken back to Cherbourg for repairs.
Upon the armistice , she was towed to England and seized on July 3rd 1940 and placed in reserve at Hartlepool, lacking a National Free French Forces crew to place her in operations.
In August 1945, La Cordelière was in very bad shape and was returned to France, decommissioned and towed to Cherbourg. Never repaired, she was struck from the list in 1950 along with La Melpomène, La Flore et l’Incomprise.


Principal characteristics:

• Displacement : 610 tons (in reality 680 tons)
• Length overall : 80.70 m
• Length between perpendiculars : 76 m
• Load waterline breadth : 7.72 m
• Breadth : 7.96 m
• mean draught : 2.48 m
• Power : 22,000 hp
• Speed : 34 knots (36.5 during trials)
• Range : 1800 miles at 18 knots
• Crew : 92
• Armament : 2 100/60 guns – 2 13.2 AA machine guns – 2 550 mm torpedo launchers.

The La Cordelière monograph consists of a sheet of plans at the 1/100th scale, 2 plates of color photos qnd a historical and descriptive notice.