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AILETTE 1st class avisos (sloops) (1918)


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Ailette

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Ailette     Arsenal de Brest 1917 3.1918 1918 sold 10.1941
Escaut     Arsenal de Brest 1917 3.1918 1918 stricken 1934


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

492
Displacement full, t 
Length, m

70.0
Breadth, m

8.31
Draught, m

3.05
No of shafts

2
Machinery

2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Du Temple boilers
Power, h. p.

4000
Max speed, kts

20
Fuel, t

oil 143
Endurance, nm(kts)4000(11)
Armament

4 x 1 - 100/45 M1917, 2 x 1 - 65/50 M1902
Complement

107


Standard scale images


<i>Ailette</i> 1940
Ailette 1940
<i>Ailette</i> 1918
Ailette 1918


Graphics


<i>Ailette</i>
Ailette


Project history

Built under the 1917 programme. Intended for service as decoy ships, therefore had an outline profile of merchant vessel and artillery masked by folding shields.

Modernizations

1930s, Ailette: - 2 x 1 - 65/50; + 1 x 1 - 75/35 M1897

Naval service

Ailette before WWII used for fishery protection and paid off 30.10.1941 in Morocco.