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MYTHO river gunboats (1933-1936)

Names

Mytho

Tourane

Builders

Arsenal de Saigon: Mytho, Tourane

Completed

1933: Mytho

1936: Tourane

Losses

Mytho (9.3.1945), Tourane (9.3.1945)

Transfers

none

Discarding

none

  

Displacement normal, t

95

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

35.0 pp

Breadth, m

5.35

Draught, m

0.90

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 diesels

Power, h. p.

250

Max speed, kts

10

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 500(10)

Armament

1 x 1 - 75/35 M1897, 1 x 1 - 47/40 M1885, 2 x 1 - 8.80, 1 mortar

Complement

 

Project history: Small river gunboats for Chinese waters, did not had battle value.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Mytho was captured by IJN 9.3.1945 on Mekong and sunk by sloop Amiral Charner later this day, Tourane was scuttled 9..3.1945 on river Donai to avoid capture by Japanese fleet.

Mytho 1934

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