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FLAMANT 2nd class aviso (sloop) (1918)

Quentin Roosevelt 1919

Quentin Roosevelt 1940

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Flamant, late 1918- Quentin Roosevelt     Arsenal de Rochefort 1913 12.1916 4.1918 captured by British 3.7.1940, returned 1945, stricken 1947

  

Displacement normal, t

585

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

46.9 pp 50.0 oa

Breadth, m

8.42

Draught, m

5.80

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 2 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

1200

Max speed, kts

14.5

Fuel, t

coal 105

Endurance, nm(kts) 1200(10)

Armament

1 x 1 - 75/35 M1897, 1 x 1 - 47/50 M1902

Complement

53

Project history: Laid down as fishery protection vessel, in 1914 building was suspended. Ship was commissioned as sloop, by summer 1918 she was renamed Quentin Roosevelt, in honour of son of US president T. Roosevelt, killed in France.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: After WWI ship was used for a fishery protection. Quentin Roosevelt was captured by British 3.7.1940, used for training and returned after WWII and scrapped in 1955.

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