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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Balny			A C de Bretagne, Nantes	1908	6.1914	1920	laid up 1940, BU 1944

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	201
Displacement full, t	226
Length, m	52.3 pp 54.4 oa
Breadth, m	6.70
Draught, m	1.00
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 Fouché boilers
Power, h. p.	900
Max speed, kts	14
Fuel, t	coal 27
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 75/35 M1897, 2 x 1 - 37/40 M1902, 4 x 1 - 8.80
Complement	59

Standard scale images

Project history

Designed for service on Yangtze. Originally she should be sister-ship of Doudart de la Grée but construction was delayed between 1914 and 1918 and ship was completed under little changed design.

Modernizations

1930s: + 1 x 1 - 75/35 M1897.

Naval service

Balny was laid up at Chungking in 1940 and scrapped in 1944.