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TORPEDO SHIPS

SPAHI destroyers

Hussard 1914

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Spahi   F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne 1906 3/5/1908 7/1910 stricken 12/1927
Hussard   C de la Loire, Nantes 1906 12/9/1908 9/1911 stricken 3/1922
Carabinier   Penhoët, St-Nazaire 1906 10/10/1908 10/1909 sunk 15/11/1918
Lansquenet   Dyle et Bacalan, Bordeaux 1907 20/11/1909 10/1910 stricken 12/1928
Mameluk   C de la Loire, Nantes 1907 10/3/1909 6/1911 stricken 2/1928
Enseigne Henry   Arsenal de Rochefort 1910 12/5/1911 4/1912 stricken 6/1928
Aspirant Herber   Arsenal de Rochefort 1909 30/4/1912 8/1912 stricken 7/1930

 

Displacement normal, t

530

Displacement full, t

550

Length, m

Spahi: 64.6 pp

Hussard, Mameluk: 65.8 pp

Carabinier: 64.2 pp

Lansquenet, Enseigne Henry, Aspirant Herber: 64.0 pp

Breadth, m

Spahi: 6.05 wl

Hussard, Mameluk, Lansquenet, Enseigne Henry, Aspirant Herber: 6.60

Carabinier: 6.48 wl

Draught, m

Spahi, Lansquenet, Enseigne Henry, Aspirant Herber: 2.30

Hussard, Mameluk, Carabinier: 2.40

No of shafts

2

Machinery

Spahi, Lansquenet: VTE, 4 Normand boilers

Hussard, Mameluk: VTE, 4 Du Temple boilers

Enseigne Henry, Aspirant Herber, Carabinier: VTE, 4 Guyot boilers

Power, h. p.

Spahi: 9000

others: 7500

Max speed, kts

28

Fuel, t

coal 95

Lansquenet: coal 115

Endurance, nm(kts)

1200(10)

Lansquenet: 2880(10)

Armament

6 x 1 - 65/50 M1902, 1 - 450 TT (bow), 2 x 1 - 450 TT

Complement 77 - 79

Ship project history: The first group of 450ton destroyers. Represented the enlarged variant of 300ton ships and had the same machinery arrangement (engine room was placed between two boiler room groups). They were strongly overloaded; Carabinier on trials reached only 27kts speed.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Carabinier 13/11/1918 stranded off Latakieh (Syria) and was destroyed two days later by Turkish coastal artillery, long after formal Ottoman surrender.

Hussard 1915

Aspirant Herber

 

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