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DUBOURDIEU 2nd class avisos (sloops) (1918-1920)

Dubourdieu 1919

Dubourdieu 1940

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Decres     Arsenal de Lorient 1918 --- --- cancelled
Du Chaffault     Arsenal de Lorient 1917 9.1918 1918 stricken 1938
Du Couëdic     Arsenal de Lorient 1918 7.1919 1920 stricken 1939
Dubourdieu     Arsenal de Lorient 1917 4.1918 1918 sunk 8.11.1942
Dumont D`Urville, 10.1929- Enseigne Henry     Arsenal de Lorient 1917 6.11.1918 1919 stricken 1933
Duperré     Arsenal de Lorient 1918 12.1918 1920 stricken 1933

  

Displacement normal, t

453

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

64.9

Breadth, m

8.20

Draught, m

3.10

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets Breguet geared steam turbines, 2 Du Temple boilers

Power, h. p.

2000

Max speed, kts

16.5

Fuel, t

oil 140

Endurance, nm(kts) 2000(15)

Armament

1 x 1 - 139/45 M1893, 1 x 1 - 100/45 M1917, 2 DCT

Complement

74

Project history: Smaller variant of Amiens class.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Dubourdieu was paid off at Casablanca 28.10.1940 and sunk 8.11.1942 at Allied landing in the North Africa. Enseigne Henry was scuttled at Lorient 18.6.1940, salvaged by Germans and sold for scrap 25.6.1941.

Dubordieu

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