Baccarat 1919
Arras 1940
| Name | 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 |
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Displacement normal, t |
850 |
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Displacement full, t |
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Length, m |
72.0 pp 74.9 oa |
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Breadth, m |
8.71 |
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Draught, m |
3.20 |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Normand or Du Temple boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
5000 |
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Max speed, kts |
20 |
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Fuel, t |
oil 200 Baccarat, Béthune, Craonne, Liévin, Montdement, Montmirail and some others: coal 185 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 3000(11) |
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Armament |
2 x 1 - 139/55 M1910, 1 x 1 - 75/35 M1915-18, 4 x 1 - 8/80, 2 DCT (20) |
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Complement |
103 |
Ship 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.
Calais 1920
Amiens 1942
Épinal 1945 (in RN, towed for scrapping)
Tahure 1938
Belfort 1939
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