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Fleuret

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Stylet	M32		Arsenal de Rochefort	3.1904	18.5.1905	4.1907	stricken 5.1921
Tromblon	M33		Arsenal de Rochefort	7.1904	17.6.1905	4.1907	stricken 5.1921
Pierrier	M34		Arsenal de Rochefort	10.1904	28.2.1907	11.1908	stricken 7.1921
Obusier	M35		Arsenal de Rochefort	5.1904	9.3.1906	9.1907	stricken 5.1921
Mortier	M36		Arsenal de Rochefort	9.1904	23.3.1906	1.1908	stricken 3.1927
Claymore	M37		Normand, Le Havre	1904	14.3.1906	5.1906	stricken 3.1926
Carquois	M38		Arsenal de Rochefort	7.1905	26.6.1907	8.1908	stricken 11.1930
Trident	M39		Arsenal de Rochefort	1905	5.12.1907	1.1909	stricken 11.1931
Fleuret	M40		Arsenal de Rochefort	5.1905	14.12.1906	3.1908	stricken 1.1920
Coutelas	M41		Arsenal de Rochefort	2.1906	12.1.1907	3.1908	stricken 1.1921
Cognée	M44		Arsenal de Toulon	1905	26.11.1907	12.1908	stricken 7.1921
Hache	M45		Arsenal de Toulon	8.1906	15.2.1908	6.1909	stricken 2.1921
Massue	M46		Arsenal de Toulon	11.1906	19.9.1908	6.1909	stricken 3.1927

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	350
Displacement full, t
Length, m	58.5 wl
Breadth, m	6.48
Draught, m	3.00
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 Normand boilers Cognée, Hache, Massue: 2 VTE, 2 Du Temple boilers Pierrier: 2 4-cyl VTE, 2 Normand boilers
Power, h. p.	6800
Max speed, kts	28
Fuel, t	coal ~80
Endurance, nm(kts)	2300(10)
Armament	1 x 1 - 65/50 M1902, 6 x 1 - 47/50 M1902, 2 x 1 - 450 TT
Complement	60

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Project history

Last 300ton destroyers; sometimes they were called 350ton. Massue was used temporary as minesweeper in 1912.

The prototype, Claymore, was ordered 2.9.1903, and orders for five Arquebuse class to be built at Rochefort were converted into orders for Claymores at the same time, the vessels being laid down 1904/06. The new hull form and extra weight of torpedoes made them top-heavy, so the upperworks were reduced and the closed bridge was replaced by an open position. The Dockyard-built Claymores did not prove very satisfactory. Pierrier was initially fitted with a Delaunay-Belleville 4-cyl experimental TE engine - it arrived two years late and was not a success and as a result the ship did not enter service until November 1910. She reverted to a 3-cyl engine in 1911.

Modernizations

1908, all: mainmast was removed

1911, Pierrier: main engines were replaced by standard 3-cyl.

1912, Massue: (temporarily) + sweeps

1915, some survived: - 2 x 1 - 47/40; + 2 x 1 - 47/40 M1885 AA

1916, some survived: - 1 x 1 - 65/50; + 1 x 1 - 75/35 M1897, 1 DCT (6 - 12 DC)

1917, some survived: + 1 x 1 - 8.80

1918, some survived: - 1 DCT

Naval service

 Mortier collided in the Adriatic with liner Asie in days of WWI, she served as torpedo school tender since June 1919 till October 1923.





Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.