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FR53 corvette

Annamite 1940

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
FR53 (ex-Chamois)     Arsenal de Lorient, France 11.1936 29.4.1938 1939 // --- captured incomplete by Germany 9.9.1943 (SG21)

 

Displacement standard, t

647

Displacement full, t

900

Length, m

73.8 pp 78.3 oa

Breadth, m

8.70

Draught, m

3.28

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Sulzer diesels

Power, h. p.

4000

Max speed, kts

20

Fuel, t

diesel oil 105

Endurance, nm(kts) 10000(9)

Armament

1 x 1 - 100/45 M1892 or M1932 or 1 x 2 - 90/50 M1926, 1 x 4 - 13.2/76, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76, 2 DCT, 1 DCR (40)

Complement

106

   

Project history: French aviso Chamois, renamed FR53, was scuttled at Toulon in November, 1942, salvaged by Italians in 1943 and was put on repair, but by September never commissioned. Later she again was captured by Germans but not commissioned and sunk by Allied bombers 15.8.1944.

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