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Dunois

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Dunois			Arsenal de Cherbourg	9.1896	6.10.1897	12.1898	stricken 1920
La Hire			Arsenal de Cherbourg	11.1897	3.11.1898	1899	TS 1914, stricken 10.1922

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	889
Displacement full, t
Length, m	77.6 wl 78.0 oa
Breadth, m	8.43
Draught, m	3.10 mean 3.86 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 8 Normand-Sigaudy boilers
Power, h. p.	7500
Max speed, kts	21.7 - 22
Fuel, t	coal 137
Endurance, nm(kts)	5000(10)
Armour, mm	steel; belt: 25, deck: 10, CT: 50
Armament	6 x 1 - 65/50 M1891, 6 x 1 - 47/40 M1885
Complement	137

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Project history

Originally classified as torpedo avisos and later as destroyers but had no torpedoes! Original lightly armoured ships intended specially for actions against enemy torpedo boats.

Ship protection

There was 10mm lower deck. Belt protected only machinery.

Modernizations

1918, La Hire: - 6 x 1 - 65/50; + 2 x 1 - 100/45 M1917, DCs.

Naval service

La Hire served in 1914 and since 1917 at Toulon gunnery school.