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Annamite

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
Commandant de Pimodan (ex-Alfred de Courcy)	A06, 1950- F739		A C de La Loire, Nantes	1939	1941	1947	BU 1.1966
Amiral Duperré			A C de la Loire, Nantes	1939	---	---	abandoned 6.1940
Amiral Gourdon			F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne	1939	---	---	abandoned 6.1940
Amiral Sénès			A C de Provence, Port-de-Bouc	8.1939	1942	3.1944 // ---	completed as German SG21 Bernd von Arnim
Annamite, 1953- Chamois	A09, 1950- F734		Arsenal de Lorient	4.1938	17.6.1939	2.1940	FNFL 11.1942, to Morocco 1961 (إل لهق [El Lahiq])
Chamois			Arsenal de Lorient	11.1936	29.4.1938	1939	scuttled 27.11.1942 (later German SG21)
Chevreuil	U89, 1945- A10, 1950- F735		Arsenal de Lorient	6.1937	17.6.1939	9.1939	captured by British 3.7.940, FNFL 7.1940, to Tunisia 10.1959 (دستور [Destour])
Enseigne Ballande			A C de Provence, Port-de-Bouc	8.1939	25.5.1942	---	captured by Germans on the stocks (SG22), scuttled incomplete 20.8.1944
Enseigne Bisson			A C de La Loire, Nantes	1939	---	---	abandoned 6.1940
Gazelle	A08, 1950- F736		Arsenal de Lorient	6.1937	17.6.1939	10.1939	FNFL 11.1942, sold 3.1961
Bisson (ex-L`Ambitieuse)	A05, 1950- F737		Arsenal de Lorient	1939	5.3.1946	1947	BU 1964
La Furieuse			F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne	1939	---	---	cancelled 1940
La Généreuse			Arsenal de Lorient	1939	---	---	abandoned 6.1940
L`Heureuse			Arsenal de Lorient	1939	---	---	abandoned 6.1940
La Joyeuse			A C de Provence, Port-de-Bouc	1939	---	---	cancelled 1940
La Maliceuse			Arsenal de Lorient	1939	---	---	abandoned 6.1940
Commandant Ducuing (ex-La Preneuse)			F C de la Gironde, Bordeaux	1939	8.6.1948	---	abandoned 1948
La Rieuse			F C de la Gironde, Bordeaux	1939	---	---	abandoned 6.1940
La Sérieuse			F C de la Gironde, Bordeaux	1939	---	---	abandoned 6.1940
La Surprise (ex-Bambora)			Arsenal de Lorient	4.1938	17.6.1939	3.1940	sunk 8.11.1942
La Trompeuse			A C de Provence, Port-de-Bouc	1939	---	---	cancelled 1940
Commandant Amyot d`Inville (ex-La Victorieuse)	A07, 1950- F738		A C de la Loire, Nantes	1939	1941	1947	BU 1965
Matelot Leblanc			A C de Provence, Port-de-Bouc	8.1939	10.7.1942	5.1943 // ---	completed as German SG41
Rageot de la Touche			A C de Provence, Port-de-Bouc	8.1939	2.9.1942	10.1943 // ---	completed as German SG15

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	647 post-war built: 660
Displacement full, t	900
Length, m	73.8 pp 78.3 oa
Breadth, m	8.70
Draught, m	3.28
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Sulzer diesels
Power, h. p.	4000
Max speed, kts	20
Fuel, t	diesel oil 105 post-war built: diesel oil 82
Endurance, nm(kts)	10000(9)
Armament	designed: 1 x 2 - 100/45 M1933, 1 x 4 - 13.2/76, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76, mechanical minesweeping gear really pre-war built: 1 x 1 - 100/45 M1892 or M1932 or 1 x 2 - 90/50 M1926, 1 x 4 - 13.2/76, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76, 2 DCT, 1 DCR (40) post-war built: 2 x 1 - 105/45 SK C/32, 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (120)
Electronic equipment	post-war built: radars, sonar
Complement	106

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Project history

1935 (3 ships), 1937 (2) and 1938 (4) programs. Building of three ships of the 1938 program and 12 of 1939 program was cancelled. As a whole design was close to Élan, but ships had extended forecastle.

Modernizations

1948, Annamite, Chevreul, Gazelle: were rearmed with 1 x 2 - 90/50 M1926, 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 6 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (120), radars, sonar