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Ships

Names	Builders	Completed	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
N°130-144	Normand, Le Havre: N°130-135 A C de la Loire, Nantes: N°136-138 Schneider, Chalons-sur-Saône: N°139-141 A C de la Gironde, Bordeaux: N°142-144	1890-1892: N°130-144	N°133 (11/1897)	none	1910: N°130-132, 134, 136-144 1921: N°135

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	52
Displacement full, t
Length, m	34.0 pp
Breadth, m	3.50
Draught, m	0.90
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VTE, 1 du Temple boiler
Power, h. p.	720
Max speed, kts	20
Fuel, t	coal
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 - 37/20 M1885, 1 x 1 - 380 TT, 1 spar torpedo
Complement	18

Standard scale images

Project history

Ordered on 23.1.1889 (Nos 130-135), and on 13.2.1889 (Nos 136-144). These Normand-designed boats were the first French TBs with watertube boilers and also adopted triple expansion machinery. They were economical steamers and good seaboats, but the accommodation was cramped. Furthermore, the boilers gave some trouble in the early stages, and they were nor considered an advance on the 126 type. The TT was on a pivot mounting aft, and the spar torpedo was replaced in 1900 with a second trainable TT forward.

Modernizations

1900, all survived: - 1 spar torpedo; + 1 x 1 - 380 TT

Naval service

They were reduced to auxiliary roles and disposed of around 1910, except 133 (lost November 1897), and 135 (tender to torpedo school until 1921).