Balny 1920
Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
Balny | A C de Bretagne, Nantes | 1908 | 6.1914 | 1920 | laid up 1940, BU 1944 |
Displacement normal, t |
201 |
Displacement full, t |
226 |
Length, m |
52.3 pp 54.4 oa |
Breadth, m |
6.70 |
Draught, m |
1.00 |
No of shafts |
2 |
Machinery |
2 VTE, 2 Fouché boilers |
Power, h. p. |
900 |
Max speed, kts |
14 |
Fuel, t |
coal 27 |
Endurance, nm(kts) | |
Armament |
1 x 1 - 75/35 M1897, 2 x 1 - 37/40 M1902, 4 x 1 - 8.80 |
Complement |
59 |
Project history: Designed for service on Yangtze. Originally she should be sister-ship of Doudart de la Grée but construction was delayed between 1914 and 1918 and ship was completed under little changed design.
Modernizations: 1930s: + 1 x 1 - 75/35 M1897.
Naval service: Balny was laid up at Chungking in 1940 and scrapped in 1944.
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