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Koutoubia 1940

Ships

Name	Launched // Comm.	Builder	Tonnage, BRT	Dimensions, m (length pp)	Speed, kts	Engine, Power hp	Armament	Fate
X01 Aramis	1932 // 9.1939	F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne	17537	165.4ppx21.2x8.7	17	2 diesels, 14700	8 x 1 - 139/45, 2 x 1 - 75/35, 2 x 1 - 37	paid off 8.1940
X04 Koutoubia	1931 // 9.1939	F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne	8790	135.2ppx17.8x7.3	16.5	2 steam turbines, 8800	8 x 1 - 139/45, 1 x 1 - 37, 2 x 1 - 25	paid off 9.1940
X05 Ville d`Oran	1936 // 9.1939	SPCN, La Ciotat	10172	140.8ppx19.3x6.6	21	2 geared steam turbines, 18000	5 x 1 - 139/45	paid off 10.1940
X06 El Mansour	1933 // 10.1939	F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne	5818	121.7ppx16.4x5.5	21.5	2 geared steam turbines, 12000	7 x 1 - 139/45, 2 x 1 - 75/35	paid off 10.1940
X07 Victor Schoelcher, 11.1941- Bougainville	1939 // 9.1939	F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne	4504	114.5ppx15.8x5.9	17	2 diesels, 5200	7 x 1 - 139/45, 2 x 1 - 75/35, 2 x 1 - 37	paid off 10.1940, re-commissioned 11.1941, sunk 6.5.1942
X10 Colombie	1931 // 11.1939	A C de France, Dunkerque	13390	155.2ppx20.4x8.0	16	2 steam turbines, 7400	7 x 1 - 149/45, 2 x 1 - 75/35, 2 x 1 - 37, 35 DC	paid off 9.1940
X11 Charles Plumier	1939 // 9.1939	A C de Provence, Port-de-Bouc	4504	114.5ppx15.8x5.9	17	2 diesels, 5200	7 x 1 - 149/45, 2 x 1 - 75/35, 2 x 1 - 37	paid off 10.1940
X17 El Djezair	1934 // 10.1939	F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne	5818	121.5ppx16.4x5.5	21.5	2 geared steam turbines, 12000	7 x 1 - 139/45, 2 x 1 - 75/35	paid off 10.1940
X18 El Kantara	1932 // 9.1939	Swan Hunter, Low Walker, UK	5079	116.3x16.4x5.7	20.5	2 geared steam turbines, 8000	7 x 1 - 139/45, 2 x 1 - 75/35	paid off 10.1940
X19 Barfleur	1938 // 11.1939	Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen, Denmark	3259	102.6ppx13.9x5.8	16	1 diesel, 3850	7 x 1 - 149/45, 2 x 1 - 75/35, 2 x 1 - 37	armed transport X2 1944
X20 Quercy	1937 // 9.1939	Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen, Denmark	3100	98.5ppx13.9x5.7	15.5	1 diesel, 3750	7 x 1 - 139/45, 2 x 1 - 75/35, 2 x 1 - 37 1941: 3 x 1 - 139/45, 4 x 2 - 37	paid off 11.1940, re-commissioned 1941, armed transport 1944
X21 Estérel	1938 // 10.1939	Gotaverken, Gothenburg, Sweden	3100	98.5ppx13.9x5.7	15.5	1 diesel, 3750	7 x 1 - 139/45, 2 x 1 - 75/35, 2 x 1 - 37	paid off 11.1940
X22 Mexique	1915 // 10.1939	A C de Provence, Port-de-Bouc	12000	166.6ppx19.5x	16	steam turbines, 4 boilers		conversion cancelled 11.1939
X1 Cap des Palmes	1935 // 1941	Helsingör Vaerft, Denmark	3081	100.6ppx13.4x5.2	17.5	1 diesel, 4500	2 x 1 - 90/50	returned 1947

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Project history

Former passenger liners and fast refrigerators converted to AMCs.

Modernizations

1941, Quercy: was rearmed with 3 x 1 - 139/40, 8 x 1 - 37/50, 10 x 1 - 13.2/76

1943, Cap des Palmes was rearmed with 2 x 1 - 152/45, 2 x 1 - 76/45, 8 x 1 - 20/70, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 4 DCT.

1943, Barfleur: - 5 x 1 - 149/45, 2 x 1 - 37/50; + 6 x 1 - 20/70

1943, Quercy: - 2 x 1 - 139/40, 6 x 1 - 37/50, 10 x 1 - 13.2/76; + 8 x 1 - 20/70

Naval service

Aramis was laid up in Indo-China in August, 1940, later captured by Japanese and sunk by USN submarine Rasher. El Mansour was paid off in October, 1940, later captured by Italians, renamed Anagni and scuttled at Marseilles in August, 1944. Bougainville was sunk 6.5.1942 at Diego Suarez by British aircraft. El Djezair was paid off in October, 1940, later captured by Germans, transferred by them to Italians as Cassino, re-captured by Germans in 1943 and sunk 25.6.1944 by Allied aircraft. El Kantara was paid off in October, 1940, later captured by Italians as Aquino and sunk by Allied aircraft 2.4.1943. Estérel was paid off in November, 1940, later captured by Germans and ran aground after being attacked by British submarine Shakespeare.