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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
N°294			A C de la Gironde, Bordeaux / Bréguet	1903	1904	1904	stricken 1910

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	100
Displacement full, t
Length, m	38.5 wl
Breadth, m	3.95
Draught, m	1.40
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Bréguet-Laval steam turbines, 2 du Temple boilers
Power, h. p.	1800
Max speed, kts	24
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 11.3.1903 from Bréguet (hull subcontracted to Chantiers de la Gironde), to test the only other French turbine design available. No 294 proved to be not only slower than 293 (achieving a trial speed of 25.14kts) but without a cruising turbine was also less economical.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

She was stricken in 1910, but survived at the engineering school at Brest until 1914.