French destroyer Maillé-Brézé (D627), Nantes. Maillé-Brézé is a T 47-class destroyer (escorteur d’escadre) of the French Navy. She was built by Arsenal de Lorient in Lorient, commissioned on 4 May 1957 and named after the French admiral Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé (1619–1646).