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C101 submarine chasers (1919 - 1920)


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Ch105 1930

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
C101, 1919- Ch101     Augustin-Normand, Le Havre or A C de la Loire, Nantes or A C Dubigeon, Nantes     1919/20 wrecked 12.1920
C102, 1919- Ch102     Augustin-Normand, Le Havre or A C de la Loire, Nantes or A C Dubigeon, Nantes     1919/20 sold 1930s
C103, 1919- Ch103     Augustin-Normand, Le Havre or A C de la Loire, Nantes or A C Dubigeon, Nantes     1919/20 sold 1930s
C104, 1919- Ch104     Augustin-Normand, Le Havre or A C de la Loire, Nantes or A C Dubigeon, Nantes     1919/20 sold 1930s
C105, 1919- Ch105     Augustin-Normand, Le Havre or A C de la Loire, Nantes or A C Dubigeon, Nantes     1919/20 sold 1930s
C106, 1919- Ch106     Augustin-Normand, Le Havre     1919/20 captured by British 3.7.1940
C107, 1919- Ch107     A C de la Loire, Nantes     1919/20 collision 12.4.1940
C108, 1919- Ch108     Augustin-Normand, Le Havre or A C de la Loire, Nantes or A C Dubigeon, Nantes     1919/20 sold 1930s
C109, 1919- Ch109     Augustin-Normand, Le Havre or A C de la Loire, Nantes or A C Dubigeon, Nantes     1919/20 sold 1930s
C110, 1919- Ch110     Augustin-Normand, Le Havre or A C de la Loire, Nantes or A C Dubigeon, Nantes     1919/20 sold 1930s
C111, 1919- Ch111, 1928- Commandant Bourdais     A C Dubigeon, Nantes     1919/20 gunboat 1928, scuttled 9.3.1945
C112, 1919- Ch112, 1928- Avalanche     A C Dubigeon, Nantes     1919/20 gunboat 1928, sunk 9.3.1945
C113, 1919- Ch113     Augustin-Normand, Le Havre or A C de la Loire, Nantes or A C Dubigeon, Nantes     1919/20 sold 1930s
C114, 1919- Ch114     Augustin-Normand, Le Havre or A C de la Loire, Nantes or A C Dubigeon, Nantes     1919/20 sold 1930s
C115, 1919- Ch115     Augustin-Normand, Le Havre or A C de la Loire, Nantes or A C Dubigeon, Nantes     1919/20 sold 1938
C116, 1919- Ch116     Augustin-Normand, Le Havre or A C de la Loire, Nantes or A C Dubigeon, Nantes     1919/20? sold 1930s?
C117, 1919- Ch117     Augustin-Normand, Le Havre or A C de la Loire, Nantes or A C Dubigeon, Nantes     1919/20 sold 1930s


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

128 - 133
Displacement full, t150
Length, m

41.4 pp 43.4 oa
Breadth, m

5.20
Draught, m

2.40
No of shafts

2
Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Normand or Du Temple boilers
Power, h. p.

1300
Max speed, kts

16.5
Fuel, t

coal 32
Armament

1 x 1 - 75/35 M1897, 1 x 1 - 8.80, 1 DCT (8), 1 Pinocchio towed A/S torpedo
Complement

31


Standard scale images


<i>C101</i> 1919
C101 1919


Graphics


<i>Ch105</i> 1930
Ch105 1930
<i>Avalanche</i>
Avalanche


Project history

VTE-engined submarine chasers, designed and built in France in the end of the First World War. Only 16 or 17 ships of 37 ordered were commissioned. Two chasers, Ch111 and Ch112, were converted to river gunboats for service in Indochina.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Ch106 was captured by British 3.7.1940. Ch107 was lost in Loire mouth 12.4.1940. Both gunboats were destroyed 9.3.1945: Commandant Bourdais was scuttled, and Avalanche was sunk by gunfire of aviso Amiral Charner.