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LOUP patrol tugs (1917)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Loup     F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne     1917 scuttled 27.11.1942
Marcassin     F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne     1917 scuttled 27.11.1942
Renard I     F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne     1917 sunk 19.10.1917
Sanglier     F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne     1917 stricken 1940

  

Displacement normal, t

285

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

 

Breadth, m

 

Draught, m

 

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 Belleville boiler

Power, h. p.

600

Max speed, kts

10

Fuel, t

 
Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 75/35 M1897

Complement

 

Project history: Patrol tugs.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Renard I was mined 19.10.1917 in the Iroise, later salvaged and commissioned as tug. Loup and Marcassin were scuttled at Toulon 27.11.1942, latter raised by Germans 6.10.1943 but 5.7.1944 sunk again by Allied aircraft.

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