C 31 - chasseur de sous-marins - (SC 173)
English Version :
C 31 - french subchaser - (SC 173)
(Other name = Chasseur 31)
Type SC 1
1918 - 1946
Builder : Matthews Co, Port Clinton, Ohio, USA
Launch date : 1918
Date of completion : April 1918
End : 1946
Flag : French
Characteristics : 70 t.; 675 cv.; 33,5*4,5*2,3 meters; 75 tpc.;
Material of build : wood;
Machinery : 3 engines (gas.);
Number of screws : 3 screws;
Speed : 17 knots;
Crew : 25 seamen;
Guns : 1*75 + 1*Y-gun.
Naval marking : C 31
History :
1917 : SC 173 (USA)
1918 : sold by the USA to France ;
April 1918 : incorporated into a U.S. convoy to France
(no squadron)
Patrols in Manche
1919 - 1925 : disarmed
1925 : sold to Latecoere airline;
renamed COLONEL CASSE;
monitoring (surveillance) of airlines flying between North Africa and France;
1927 : Aeropostale Airline;
1933 : Air France Airline:
September 26th, 1939 : Used in Alger as auxiliary patrol boat;
1939 : transformed in a magnetic-minesweeper ;
July 4th, 1940 : Rescues the survivors of the ship RIGAULT DE GENOUILLY after sinking by the submarine HMS PANDORA near Alger;
1943 : School of Midshipmen in Alger;
December 12th, 1946 : Sold to broken in Alger.
Bibliography : Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la Flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours
Tome II - 1870 / 2006
Lieutenant de Vaisseau Jean Michel ROCHE
2005 - Rezotel
http://www.netmarine.net/dico/index.htm
Site internet : http://www.subchaser.org/home
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