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FRENCH NAVY (FRANCE)

COASTAL FORCES

V54 ASW motor launches (1917)

Names

V54 - 61

Builders

Gustave Cornilleau, Marseilles: V54-61

Completed

1 - 6.1917: V54-61

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

early 1920s: V54 - 61

 

Displacement normal, t

40 - 41

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

26.5

Breadth, m

4.00

Draught, m

1.30

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 American Wolverine petrol engines

Power, h. p.

360

Max speed, kts

14.5

Fuel, t

petrol

Armament

 

Complement

 

Project history: Motor patrol and anti-submarine wooden-hulled boats. 2nd and 3rd series were built by French yards.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Soon after Armistice almost all boats of "V" type were broken up or sold to private owners.

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