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ATHLETE patrol tugs (1917-1919)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Athlete     Arsenal de Brest     1917 scuttled 18.6.1940
Gladiateur V     Arsenal de Brest     1918 stricken 1920
Lutteur     Arsenal de Brest     1919 scuttled 18.6.1940

  

Displacement normal, t

585

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

 

Breadth, m

 

Draught, m

 

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Sisson steam engines, 1 Belleville boiler

Power, h. p.

500

Max speed, kts

12

Fuel, t

 
Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 120/40 QF Mk IV

Complement

 

Project history: Patrol tugs.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Lutteur and Athlete were scuttled at Brest 18.6.1940, former was salvaged by Germans but later lost at unknown circumstances.

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