Annamite 1940
Commandant Amyot d'Inville 1950
Commandant Amyot d'Inville 1960
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comm | Fate |
| Commandant de Pimodan (ex-Alfred de Courcy) | A06, 1950- F739 | A C de La Loire, Nantes | 1939 | 1941 | 1947 | BU 1.1966 | |
| Amiral Duperré | A C de la Loire, Nantes | 1939 | --- | --- | abandoned 6.1940 | ||
| Amiral Gourdon | F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne | 1939 | --- | --- | abandoned 6.1940 | ||
| Amiral Sénès | A C de Provence, Port-de-Bouc | 8.1939 | 1942 | 3.1944 // --- | completed as German SG21 Bernd von Arnim | ||
| Annamite, 1953- Chamois | A09, 1950- F734 | Arsenal de Lorient | 4.1938 | 17.6.1939 | 2.1940 | FNFL 11.1942, to Morocco 1961 (إل لهق [El Lahiq]) | |
| Chamois | Arsenal de Lorient | 11.1936 | 29.4.1938 | 1939 | scuttled 27.11.1942 (later German SG21) | ||
| Chevreuil | U89, 1945- A10, 1950- F735 | Arsenal de Lorient | 6.1937 | 17.6.1939 | 9.1939 | captured by British 3.7.940, FNFL 7.1940, to Tunisia 10.1959 (دستور [Destour]) | |
| Enseigne Ballande | A C de Provence, Port-de-Bouc | 8.1939 | 25.5.1942 | --- | captured by Germans on the stocks (SG22), scuttled incomplete 20.8.1944 | ||
| Enseigne Bisson | A C de La Loire, Nantes | 1939 | --- | --- | abandoned 6.1940 | ||
| Gazelle | A08, 1950- F736 | Arsenal de Lorient | 6.1937 | 17.6.1939 | 10.1939 | FNFL 11.1942, sold 3.1961 | |
| Bisson (ex-L`Ambitieuse) | A05, 1950- F737 | Arsenal de Lorient | 1939 | 5.3.1946 | 1947 | BU 1964 | |
| La Furieuse | F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne | 1939 | --- | --- | cancelled 1940 | ||
| La Généreuse | Arsenal de Lorient | 1939 | --- | --- | abandoned 6.1940 | ||
| L`Heureuse | Arsenal de Lorient | 1939 | --- | --- | abandoned 6.1940 | ||
| La Joyeuse | A C de Provence, Port-de-Bouc | 1939 | --- | --- | cancelled 1940 | ||
| La Maliceuse | Arsenal de Lorient | 1939 | --- | --- | abandoned 6.1940 | ||
| Commandant Ducuing (ex-La Preneuse) | F C de la Gironde, Bordeaux | 1939 | 8.6.1948 | --- | abandoned 1948 | ||
| La Rieuse | F C de la Gironde, Bordeaux | 1939 | --- | --- | abandoned 6.1940 | ||
| La Sérieuse | F C de la Gironde, Bordeaux | 1939 | --- | --- | abandoned 6.1940 | ||
| La Surprise (ex-Bambora) | Arsenal de Lorient | 4.1938 | 17.6.1939 | 3.1940 | sunk 8.11.1942 | ||
| La Trompeuse | A C de Provence, Port-de-Bouc | 1939 | --- | --- | cancelled 1940 | ||
| Commandant Amyot d`Inville (ex-La Victorieuse) | A07, 1950- F738 | A C de la Loire, Nantes | 1939 | 1941 | 1947 | BU 1965 | |
| Matelot Leblanc | A C de Provence, Port-de-Bouc | 8.1939 | 10.7.1942 | 5.1943 // --- | completed as German SG41 | ||
| Rageot de la Touche | A C de Provence, Port-de-Bouc | 8.1939 | 2.9.1942 | 10.1943 // --- | completed as German SG15 |
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Displacement standard, t |
647 post-war built: 660 |
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Displacement full, t |
900 |
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Length, m |
73.8 pp 78.3 oa |
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Breadth, m |
8.70 |
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Draught, m |
3.28 |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 Sulzer diesels |
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Power, h. p. |
4000 |
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Max speed, kts |
20 |
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Fuel, t |
diesel oil 105 post-war built: diesel oil 82 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 10000(9) |
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Armament |
designed: 1 x 2 - 100/45 M1933, 1 x 4 - 13.2/76, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76, mechanical minesweeping gear really pre-war built: 1 x 1 - 100/45 M1892 or M1932 or 1 x 2 - 90/50 M1926, 1 x 4 - 13.2/76, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76, 2 DCT, 1 DCR (40) post-war built: 2 x 1 - 105/45 SK C/32, 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (120) |
| Electronic equipment | post-war built: radars, sonar |
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Complement |
106 |
Project history: 1935 (3 ships), 1937 (2) and 1938 (4) programs. Building of three ships of the 1938 program and 12 of 1939 program was cancelled. As a whole design was close to Élan, but ships had extended forecastle.
Modernizations: 1948, Annamite, Chevreul, Gazelle: were rearmed with 1 x 2 - 90/50 M1926, 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 6 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (120), radars, sonar
Naval service: Chamois was scuttled 27.11.1942 at Toulon, salvaged by Germans and commissioned by them as fast escort SG21; 23.11.1943 she was sunk by Allied aircraft, raised again and ultimately sunk by American destroyers 15.8.1944. Chevreuil 3.7.1940 was captured by British at Portsmouth and transferred to FNFL. La Surprise was sunk at Oran 8.11.1942 at Allied landing. Matelot Leblanc was completed by Germans and commissioned by them as fast escort SG14; 24.8.1944 she was sunk at Capri by Allied aircraft. Rageot de la Touche was completed by Germans and commissioned as fast escort SG15 (UJ2229), she was sunk by British submarine Universal. Amiral Sénès was captured by Germans, renamed SG16 and scuttled at Marseilles. Enseigne Ballande was captured by Germans, renamed SG17, completed but never commissioned and was scuttled.
Annamite
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