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AUROCHS class patrol tugs (1917-1919)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Aurochs     A C de Bretagne, Nantes     1918 captured by Germans 6.1940, returned 1945, stricken 1949
Élan, 1940- Élan II     A C de Bretagne, Nantes     1919 captured by British 3.7.1940
Renne     A C de Bretagne, Nantes     1918 captured by Germans 8.12.1942
Zébu     A C de Bretagne, Nantes     1917 foundered 12.6.1940

  

Displacement normal, t

290

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

 

Breadth, m

 

Draught, m

 

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 D'Allest boiler

Power, h. p.

650

Max speed, kts

10

Fuel, t

 
Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 90/24 M1891, 1 x 1 - 47/40 M1885

Complement

 

Project history: Tugs used as patrols.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Élan II was captured by British 3.7.1940, used as barrage balloon vessel and later as target tug, she was returned in 1945 and scrapped. Renne was captured by Germans at Bizerte 8.12.1942 and bombed by Allied aircraft 7.12.1943. Zébu foundered 12.6.1940 off Le Havre. Aurochs was captured by Germans in June, 1940 and returned in 1945.

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