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C 29 - chasseur de sous-marins - (SC 170)

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C 29 - french subchaser - (SC 170)
(Other name = Chasseur 29)

Type SC 1

1917 - 1922

Builder : Matthews Co, Port Clinton, Ohio, USA
Launch date : 1917
Date of completion : January 1918
End : 1922

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 29

History :

1917 : SC 170 (USA)
1917 : sold by the USA to France ;
December 11th, 1917 : from New York to Philadelphia
December 22th, 1917 - February 1918 : From Philadelphia to Brest (France) via Bermuda, Azores Islands (Portugal), Leixoës.
Towed by GYPSUM QUEEN to Punta Delgada;
(4th and 5th squadrons)
1922 : Broken in Bizerte;

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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