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Marne 1939

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Aisne			Arsenal de Lorient	1916	7.1917	1918	BU 1939
Marne			Arsenal de Lorient	1916	25.11.1916	1917	scuttled 10.3.1945
Meuse			Arsenal de Rochefort	1916	6.1917	1918	BU 1938
Oise			Arsenal de Brest	1916	12.10.1916	1917	BU 1938
Somme			Arsenal de Brest	1916	3.1917	1917	sold 10.1941
Yser			Arsenal de Rochefort	1916	1.1917	1917	scuttled 27.11.1942

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	Marne: 601 others: 566
Displacement full, t
Length, m	78.0
Breadth, m	8.90
Draught, m	3.40
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Normand or Du Temple boilers
Power, h. p.	Marne: 5000 others: 4000
Max speed, kts	Marne: 21 others: 20
Fuel, t	oil 143
Endurance, nm(kts)	4000(11)
Armament	2 x 1 - 65/50 M1902, 1 DCR
Complement	113

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Project history

Built under the 1916 programme. Differed from each other a little, in particular, Marne and Aisne were twin-funneled, remaining ships had one funnel. Besides, Marne had more powerful turbines.

Modernizations

~1920, Aisne, Marne, Meuse, Oise, Yser: armament was changed to 4 x 1 - 100/45 M1917, (2 x 1 - 65/50 M1902 or 2 x 1 - 47/50 M1902), 1 DCR.

~1920, Somme: armament was changed to 4 x 1 - 100/45 M1917, 1 x 1 - 75/35 M1897, 1 DCR.

Naval service

Marne participated in the French-Thai war and was scuttled in Indochina 10.3.1945, later she was raised and scrapped in 1957. Somme was paid off and broken up 14.10.1941. Yser was scuttled at Toulon 27.11.1942, salvaged, served under German flag as SG37. She was never commissioned again by French Navy and broken up in 1946.