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CRABE patrol vessels (1918 - 1920)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Calmar     Arsenal de Brest     1920 captured by Germans 12.1942 (GL4)
Cèdre     Arsenal de Lorient     1918 stricken 1945
Chène     Arsenal de Lorient     1918 scuttled 8.11.1942
Crabe     Arsenal de Brest     1918 captured by British 7.1940
Erable     Arsenal de Lorient     1918 stricken 1945
Frêne     Arsenal de Lorient     1919 captured by British 7.1940
Hètre     Arsenal de Lorient     1919 stricken 1946
Homard     Arsenal de Brest     1920 minesweeper 1939, captured by Germans 12.1942 (GL2)
Orme     Arsenal de Lorient     1918 scuttled 21.5.1940
Peuplier     Arsenal de Lorient     1919 captured by British 7.1940
Platane     Arsenal de Lorient     1919 stricken 1946?
Tourteau     Arsenal de Brest     1918 minesweeper 1939, captured by British 7.1940


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

360 - 370

Displacement full, t 
Length, m 
Breadth, m 
Draught, m 
No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 Fraser or Chulmar steam engine, 1 Belleville boiler

Power, h. p.400
Max speed, kts

9 - 10

Fuel, t 
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament1 x 1 - 90/24 M1891
Complement 


Project history

Tugs served as patrols.

Modernizations

1939, Homard, Tourteau: + mechanical minesweeping gear

Naval service

Crabe, Frene, Peuplier and Tourteau were captured by British in July, 1940, used as gate vessels and returned in 1945 (except Peuplier bombed at Plymouth 30.4.1941). Homard was captured by Germans in November, 1942 and sunk by Allied aircraft 2.10.1944 at La Spezia. Calmar was captured by Germans in November, 1942 and sunk by Allied aircraft 5.7.1944 at Toulon. Erable was captured by Germans in November, 1942 at Toulon, served under German flag as minesweeper M6024 and sunk 11.3.1944 at Toulon by Allied aircraft. Orme was scuttled 21.5.1940 at Boulogne, raised by Germans, renamed FH02 and sunk 2.8.1944 by Allied aircraft at Le Havre. Chene was scuttled at Oran 8.11.1942.