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Calais 1920

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Amiens			F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne	1918	5.1919	1920	captured by British 3.7.1940, FNFL depot ship 7.1940
Arras			Arsenal de Brest	1917	7.1918	1918	captured by British 3.7.1940, FNFL barrack ship 7.1940
Baccarat			A C de Provence, Port-de-Bouc	1919	1/1918	1922	BU 1933
Bapaume			Arsenal de Lorient	1917	8.1918	1920	BU 1937
Bar-le-Duc			Arsenal de Lorient	1917	1918	1920	stranded 13.12.1920
Belfort			Arsenal de Lorient	1918	3.1919	1920	seaplane tender 1920s, captured by British 3.7.1940, FNFL accommodation ship 7.1940
Béthune			A C de Provence, Port-de-Bouc	1920	7.1921	1922	BU 1934
Calais			F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne	1918	11.1919	1920	sold 11.1946
Coucy			Penhoët, St-Nazaire	1918	6.1919	1920	captured by British 3.7.1940
Craonne			F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne	1917	1.1920	1921	BU 1935
Dunkerque, 1928- Ypres			Arsenal de Brest	1917	7.1918	1918	survey vessel 1920s, BU 4.1942
Épernay			F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne	1918	9.1919	1920	BU 1934
Épinal			Penhoët, St-Nazaire	1918	8.1919	1920	captured by British 3.7.1940
Lassigny			A C de Bretagne, Nantes	1918	7.1919	1920	stricken 10.1941
Les Éparges			A C de Bretagne, Nantes	1918	9.1919	1920	survey vessel 1920s, scuttled 27.11.1942
Liévin			F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne	1917	3.1920	1921	BU 1935
Lunéville			F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne	1917	1.1920	1921	BU 1935
Montdement			F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne	1918	1.1920	1922	BU 1935
Montmirail			F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne	1918	9.1920	1921	BU 1933
Nancy			Arsenal de Cherbourg	1917	3.1919	1920	BU 1938
Péronne			F C de la Méditerranée, Le Havre	1917	3.1920	1921	BU 1935
Reims			Arsenal de Brest	1917	7.1918	1918	BU 1938
Remiremont			F C de la Gironde, Bordeaux	1917	7.1920	1921	TS 1920s, BU 1936
Révigny			F C de la Gironde, Bordeaux	1917	9.1920	1921	BU 1937
Tahure			A C de la Loire, St-Nazaire	1918	3.1918	1920	sunk 24.9.1944
Toul			A C de la Loire, St-Nazaire	1917	4.1919	1920	BU 1935
Vauquois			A C de la Loire, St-Nazaire	1918	8.1919	1920	TS 1920s, sunk 18.6.1940
Verdun, 1928- Laffaux			Arsenal de Brest	1917	11.1918	1920	BU 1938
Vimy			A C de la Loire, St-Nazaire	1918	12.1919	1920	BU 1935
Vitry-le-François			A C de la Loire, St-Nazaire	1918	3.1920	1921	BU 1935

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	850
Displacement full, t
Length, m	72.0 pp 74.9 oa
Breadth, m	8.71
Draught, m	3.20
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Normand or Du Temple boilers
Power, h. p.	5000
Max speed, kts	20
Fuel, t	oil 200 Baccarat, Béthune, Craonne, Liévin, Montdement, Montmirail and some others: coal 185
Endurance, nm(kts)	3000(11)
Armament	2 x 1 - 139/55 M1910, 1 x 1 - 75/35 M1897, 4 x 1 - 8.80, 2 DCT (20)
Complement	103

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Project history

Fast turbine-engined sloops with merchant vessel outline profile. 6 ships had coal-firing boilers, remaining fired oil. Latter ships on trials exceeded 22kts speed.

Betheny, Chalons, Chateau-Thierry, Compiegne, Douaumont, Fere Champenoise, Gerbeviller, Noyon, Roye, Saint-Dié, Senlis, Soissons and Souchez were cancelled.

Modernizations

1920s (temporary), Bapaume: Flight deck between bow and bridge was fitted; + 1 seaplane

1920s, Belfort: Flight deck between bow and bridge was fitted; + 1 seaplane

late 1930s, Épinal: - 2 x 1 - 139/55; + 2 x 1 - 145/45 M1910

1940, Amiens: + 1 x 2 - 37/48 M1935

Naval service

Bar-le-Duc stranded at Lesbos 13.12.1920 when she escorted Vrangel fleet (White Russian) from Istanbul to Bizerte.

Arras, Épinal and Amiens 3.7.1940 were captured by British at Portsmouth. Arras was transferred to FNFL, used as barrack ship and also a source of spares, she was returned after war and BU in 1946. Belfort and Coucy were captured by British 3.7.1940 at Plymouth and were returned after war. Lassigny was paid off 31.10.1940 in Morocco. Les Éparges was scuttled at Toulon 27.11.1942, salvaged by Germans and served in the Kriegsmarine as minesweeper M6060. Tahure participated in French-Thai war in January, 1941 and was sunk by American submarine Flasher 24.9.1944 (on some sources 29.4.1944). Vauquois was mined 18.6.1940.