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Simoun

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Mistral, 1925- Borée			A C Augustin-Normand, Le Havre	8.1898	4.5.1901	8.1901	stricken 4.1928
Siroco			A C Augustin-Normand, Le Havre	8/1898	20.2.1901	1901	stricken 5.1925
Simoun			F C de la Méditerranée, Graville	11.1899	23.3.1901	9.1901	stricken 4.1925
Typhon			F C de la Méditerranée, Graville	12.1899	15.6.1901	1903	sold 1928
Trombe			A C de la Loire, Nantes	8.1898	30.7.1900	1902	sold 1928
Audacieux			A C de la Loire, Nantes	8.1898	29.8.1900	11.1900	stricken 2.1923

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	113
Displacement full, t	183
Length, m	45.0 wl
Breadth, m	5.15
Draught, m	1.60
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 Normand boilers
Power, h. p.	4200
Max speed, kts	26
Fuel, t	coal 25
Endurance, nm(kts)	1000(14)
Armour, mm	belt: 24, deck: 9
Armament	2 x 1 - 47/40 M1885, 3 x 1 - 380 TT
Complement	30

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Project history

Ordered 10.8.1898 to a Normand design Essentially a Cyclone modified with splinter-armour, these were the last 'torpilleurs de haute mer'. For 10 years Normand had advocated armoured TBs, but this was the only class so built. The boilers and engines were protected by a 24mm nickel-steel box (side and bulkheads) with a 9mm deck, which Normand considered invulnerable to the 57mm and 76mm of British TBDs. The extra 18t was expected to reduce the speed to 26kts, but the Normand boats reached 28.5kts on trials, and only the Loire boats made no more than their designed speed. One of the TTs was originally mounted on a pivot on the forecastle, but this was soon removed. Otherwise, they were successful and popular boats, retaining their good qualities for the whole of their service.

Ship protection

machinery spaces were protected by splinter protection consisted of 24mm belt and 9mm deck.

Modernizations

early 1900s, all: - 1 x 1 - 381 TT.

Naval service

No significant events.