Aigle is a French Navy destroyer leader built under the 1927 program. In March 1940, she escorted the heavy cruiser Algérie and the battleship Bretagne from Toulon to Halifax, which were carrying gold to Canada. In June 1940 Aigle participated in the bombing of Genoa. Subsequently, she was disarmed and put into reserve. The maximum speed of this ship is 36 knots (66 km/h). Aigle is armed with five 138.6 mm guns in open turret mounts, four 37 mm guns and one twin 37 mm mount, two twin 13.2 mm machine guns and six 550 mm torpedoes in two torpedo tubes mounted along the central ship axles.