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HIPPOPOTAME patrol vessels (1917 - 1919)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Hippopotame     Penhoët, St-Nazaire     1918 stricken 1952
Mammouth     Ch de Normandie, Rouen     1917 captured by British 3.7.1940
Mastodonte     Ch de Normandie, Rouen     1919 captured by British 3.7.1940
Rhinocéros     Penhoët, St-Nazaire     1918 captured by Germans 8.12.1942


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

970

Displacement full, t 
Length, m 
Breadth, m 
Draught, m 
No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 2 D'Allest boiles

Power, h. p.1800
Max speed, kts

12

Fuel, t 
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

2 x 1 - 75/35 M1897

Complement 


Project history

Patrol tugs.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Mammouth and Mastodonte were captured by British 3.7.1940, returned in 1945 and used as tugs. Rhinocéros was captured by Germans 8.12.1942 at Bizerta and bombed by Allied aircraft 25.3.1943 at Sousse.