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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Calmar			Arsenal de Brest			1920	captured by Germans 12.1942 (GL4)
Cèdre			Arsenal de Lorient			1918	stricken 1945
Chène			Arsenal de Lorient			1918	scuttled 8.11.1942
Crabe			Arsenal de Brest			1918	captured by British 7.1940
Erable			Arsenal de Lorient			1918	stricken 1945
Frêne			Arsenal de Lorient			1919	captured by British 7.1940
Hètre			Arsenal de Lorient			1919	stricken 1946
Homard			Arsenal de Brest			1920	minesweeper 1939, captured by Germans 12.1942 (GL2)
Orme			Arsenal de Lorient			1918	scuttled 21.5.1940
Peuplier			Arsenal de Lorient			1919	captured by British 7.1940
Platane			Arsenal de Lorient			1919	stricken 1946?
Tourteau			Arsenal de Brest			1918	minesweeper 1939, captured by British 7.1940

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	360 - 370
Displacement full, t
Length, m
Breadth, m
Draught, m
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 Fraser or Chulmar steam engine, 1 Belleville boiler
Power, h. p.	400
Max speed, kts	9 - 10
Fuel, t
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 90/24 M1891
Complement

Project history

Tugs served as patrols.

Modernizations

1939, Homard, Tourteau: + mechanical minesweeping gear

Naval service

Crabe, Frene, Peuplier and Tourteau were captured by British in July, 1940, used as gate vessels and returned in 1945 (except Peuplier bombed at Plymouth 30.4.1941). Homard was captured by Germans in November, 1942 and sunk by Allied aircraft 2.10.1944 at La Spezia. Calmar was captured by Germans in November, 1942 and sunk by Allied aircraft 5.7.1944 at Toulon. Erable was captured by Germans in November, 1942 at Toulon, served under German flag as minesweeper M6024 and sunk 11.3.1944 at Toulon by Allied aircraft. Orme was scuttled 21.5.1940 at Boulogne, raised by Germans, renamed FH02 and sunk 2.8.1944 by Allied aircraft at Le Havre. Chene was scuttled at Oran 8.11.1942.