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V41 ASW motor boats (1917)


Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

V41-53

Despujols, Neuilly-sur-Seine: V41-53

1917: V41-50

cancelled: V51-53

none

1920: V41-50



Technical data


Displacement normal, t

40

Displacement full, t 
Length, m25.0
Breadth, m3.70
Draught, m1.00
No of shafts2
Machinery

2 Panhard petrol engines

Power, h. p. 
Max speed, kts

20

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 75/35 M1897, 2 x 1 - 8.80, 1 "Y" DCT, 1 "C" tube ASW system

Complement 


Project history

Designed by M Despujols and built in his yard at Neuilly-sur-Seine. First four boats had engine difficulties which delayed delivery until September 1917 when they were assigned to the Biscay Patrol Division while the next six went to Dunkirk. Three were cancelled.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

All were paid off in November 1919.