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Ships

Names	Builders	Completed	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
N°293	Normand, Le Havre: N°293	1904: N°293	none	none	1910: N°293

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	94
Displacement full, t
Length, m	39.5 wl
Breadth, m	4.12
Draught, m	1.25
No of shafts	3
Machinery	3 Parsons steam turbines, 2 Normand boilers
Power, h. p.	2000
Max speed, kts	26
Fuel, t	coal
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 5 - 37/20 M1885, 1 - 380 TT (bow), 1 x 1 - 380 TT
Complement

Standard scale images

Project history

Ordered on 29.10.1902 from Normand, the design was essentially a lengthened 278 with modified hull lines, intended to test Parsons turbines. Considerably more successful than the Rateau-engined 243, making a maximum of 27.3kts on trials, nevertheless 293 suffered from the high fuel consumption which was the major drawback of early turbine installations.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

She was stricken in 1910 but survived until 1916 as a tender to the engineering school at Brest.