French Brandelbas class destroyers, laid down 1907
Length, 55.0 m x Beam, 6.0 m x Depth, 3.2 m
426 tonnes normal displacement (388 tonnes standard)
Main battery: 6 x 6.5-cm
Secondary battery: 2 x 4.5-cm
QF battery:
4 x 1.3-cm
Weight of broadside: 26 kg
3 TT, 45.0 cm
Hull unarmored
45 tons depth charges/mines
Maximum speed for 7679 shaft kw = 27.00 knots
Approximate cruising radius, 1700 nm / 10 knots
Typical complement: 47-61
Estimated cost, $205,000 (£51,000)
Remarks:
Caution: Hull structure is subject to strain in open-sea
conditions.
Caution: Delicate, lightwight machinery.
Magazines and engineering spaces are cramped, with poor
watertight
subdivision.
Cramped ship; poor crew accommodation, limited working space.
Distribution of weights:
Percent
normal
displacement:
Armament .........................
7 tonnes = 2 pct
Machinery ........................
230 tonnes = 54 pct
Hull and fittings; equipment .....
112 tonnes = 26 pct
Fuel, ammunition, stores .........
51 tonnes = 12 pct
Miscellaneous weights ............
25 tonnes = 6 pct
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426 tonnes = 100 pct
Estimated metacentric height, 0.2 m
Displacement summary:
Light ship:
375 tonnes
Standard displacement: 388 tonnes
Normal service:
426 tonnes
Full load:
454 tonnes
Loading submergence 180 tonnes/metre
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Estimated overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Relative margin of stability: 1.09
Shellfire needed to sink: 40 kg = 10.4 x 6.5-cm shells
(Approximates weight of penetrating
shell hits needed to sink ship,
not
counting critical hits)
Torpedoes needed to sink: 0.1
(Approximates number of 'typical'
torpedo hits needed to sink ship)
Relative steadiness as gun platform, 54 percent
(50 percent is 'average')
Relative rocking effect from firing to beam, 0.34
Relative quality as a seaboat: 1.09
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Hull form characteristics:
Block coefficient: 0.40
Sharpness coefficient: 0.31
Hull speed coefficient 'M' = 7.33
'Natural speed' for length = 13.4 knots
Power going to wave formation
at top speed: 72 percent
Estimated hull characteristics and strength:
Relative underwater volume absorbed by
magazines and engineering spaces: 193 percent
Relative accommodation and working space: 51 percent
Displacement factor: 31 percent
(Displacement relative to loading factors)
Relative cross-sectional hull strength: 0.50
(Structure weight per square
metre
of hull surface: 117 kg)
Relative longitudinal hull strength: 3.08
(for 3.40 m average freeboard;
freeboard
adjustment +0.94 m)
Relative composite hull strength: 0.60
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[Machine-readable parameters: Spring Style v. 1.2.1]
180.40 x 19.68 x 10.50; 11.15 -- Dimensions
0.40 -- Block coefficient
1907 -- Year laid down
27.00 / 1700
/ 10.00; Turbine, coal fired -- Speed / radius / cruise
25 tons -- Miscellaneous weights
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6 x 2.56;
0 -- Main battery; turrets
Central positioning of guns
:
2 x 1.77; 0 -- Secondary battery;
turrets
:
4 x 0.51 -- Tertiary (QF/AA) battery
:
0 -- No fourth (light) battery
3 / 0 / 17.72 -- TT / submerged / size
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0.00 -- No belt armor
0.00 / 0.00 -- Deck / CT
0.00
-- No battery armor
(Note: For portability, values are stored in Anglo-American units)
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