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Ch42 1942

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Ch41, 1940- Audierne	Q041		Ch de Normandie, Fécamp	1938	1.5.1939	1940	captured by UK 3.7.1940, FNFL 1940, BU 6.1952
Ch42, 1940- Larmor	Q042		Ch de Normandie, Fécamp	1938	18.9.1939	1940	captured by UK 3.7.1940, FNFL 1940, BU 1949
Ch43, 1940- Lavandou	Q043		Ch de Normandie, Fécamp	1938	23.3.1940	1940	captured by UK 3.7.1940, FNFL 1940, BU 1.1950
Ch44			Ch de Normandie, Fécamp	1938	10.6.1940	1.1942 // ---	completed as German RA1
Ch45			Ch de Normandie, Fécamp	1938	1941	3.1942 // ---	completed as German RA2
Ch46			Ch de Normandie, Fécamp	1938	24.10.1942	8.1943 // ---	completed as German RA6
Ch47			Ch de Normandie, Fécamp	1938	1943	9.1943 // ---	completed as German RA7
Ch48			Ch de Normandie, Fécamp	1938	8.7.1943	10.1943 // ---	completed as German RA8

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	126
Displacement full, t	160
Length, m	37.4
Breadth, m	5.53
Draught, m	2.40
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 MAN diesels
Power, h. p.	1130
Max speed, kts	15.5
Fuel, t	diesel oil 6.5
Endurance, nm(kts)	1100(13)
Armament	1 x 1 - 75/35 M1897, 2 x 1 - 8.80, 4 DCT, 1 DCR (10)
Complement	23

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Project history

Wooden hull. Ch44, 45 and 46 were completed by Germans as RA4, 3 and 5 respectively. Their fate is unknown. Ch47 and 48 were broken up by Germans on slipways.

Modernizations

1942, FNFL ships: + 1 x 1 - 40/39 QF Mk VIII.

Naval service

Ch41, 42 and 43 were captured by British 3.7.1940 and later transferred to FNFL.