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FRENCH NAVY (FRANCE)

COASTAL FORCES

V62 ASW motor launches (1918)

V62 1919

Names

V62 - 73

Builders

Canadian Vickers, Montreal, Canada: V62-73

Completed

11.1918: V62-73

Losses

none

Transfers

Bulgaria, 10.1921: 4 boats (Минъор [Minyor] Взрив [Vzriv] Кондуктор Докузанов [Konduktor Dokuzanov] Капитан-лейтенант К. Минков [Kapitan-leytenant K. Minkov])

Discarding

early 1920s: V62 - 73 (8 boats)

 

Displacement normal, t

41

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

23.4

Breadth, m

3.77

Draught, m

1.50

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Standard petrol engines

Power, h. p.

440

Max speed, kts

19

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 75/35 M1897, 2 x 1 - 8.80, 1 DCT, 1 "C" tube ASW system

Complement

16

Project history: Motor patrol and anti-submarine wooden-hulled boats. Boats of 4th series were ordered in Canada and arrived to Europe already after war.

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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