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Ancre

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Ancre			Arsenal de Lorient	1917	4.1918	1918	stricken 1940
Scarpe			Arsenal de Lorient	1917	31.10.1917	1918	stricken 1938
Suippe			Arsenal de Brest	1917	4.1918	1918	captured by British 3.7.1940

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	604
Displacement full, t
Length, m	76.2
Breadth, m	8.68
Draught, m	3.27
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Du Temple boilers
Power, h. p.	5000
Max speed, kts	20
Fuel, t	oil 143
Endurance, nm(kts)	4000(11)
Armament	4 x 1 - 100/45 M1917, 1 x 1 - 65/50 M1902, 2 DCT
Complement	107

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Project history

Flush-decked turbine driven sloops, built under the 1917 programme. Scarpe had clipper bow, remaining two ships had straight stems.

Modernizations

1930s, all: - 1 x 1 - 65/50; + 1 x 1 - 75/35 M1897

Naval service

Scarpe 3.5.1920 received damages in battle against Soviet floating battery Krasnaya Zarya off Ochakov and surrendered, but soon was returned to France. Ancre was paid off in 1940. Suippe was captured by British in July, 1940 at Falmouth; 4.4.1942 she was sunk there by German aircraft, later raised but never commissioned again.