Destroyer class
La Melpomène-class torpedo boat
La Melpomène class
The class in numbers
- 12 Completed
- 6 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Preceded by
- Mistral-class torpedo boat
- Succeeded by
- Le Fier-class torpedo boat
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, full load
- 610 long tons (620 t)
- Length
- 80.7 m (264.8 ft)
- Speed
- 34.5 knots (63.9 km/h, 39.7 mph)
- Complement
- 102
- Main gun
- 100 mm (3.9 in)
- Armament
- 2 × 100 mm (3.9 in)/40 caliber guns
- 2 × 37 mm AA guns
- 2 × 13.2 mm machine guns
- 2 × 550 mm (21.7 in) torpedo tubes (1 x 2)
Sources
- Facts harvested from La Melpomène-class torpedo boat on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.