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FR56 corvette

Tapageuse 1940

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
FR56 (ex-Dédaigneuse)     F C de la Gironde, Bordeaux, France   1916 1917 // --- captured incomplete by Germany 9.9.1943

  

Displacement normal, t

310

Displacement full, t

410

Length, m

60.2

Breadth, m

7.20

Draught, m

2.90

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Du Temple or Normand boilers

Power, h. p.

2200

Max speed, kts

17

Fuel, t

coal 85

Endurance, nm(kts) 2000(10)

Armament

2 x 1 - 100/45 M1897, 2 DCT, mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement

107

Project history: Ex-French aviso (ASW gunboat) scuttled in Toulon and raised in 1943. She was never commissioned by Italians and re-captured by Germans 9.9.1943.

Courageuse 1919

 

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