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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 equipmentpost-war built: radars, sonar
Complement

106



Standard scale images


<i> Commandant Amyot d'Inville </i> 1960
Commandant Amyot d'Inville 1960
<i>Annamite</i> 1940
Annamite 1940
<i> Commandant Amyot d'Inville </i> 1950
Commandant Amyot d'Inville 1950


Graphics


<i>Annamite</i>
Annamite


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