Dimensions
- Displacement
- 890 t (max)
- Length
- 78,30 m
- Beam
- 8,50 m
- Draft
- 3,20 m
890 t (max)Displacement
78,30 mLength
20 knSpeed
May 1944 in German servicesService status
Wartime history
Capture and service
This class of French Avisos were captured by German troops in November 1942. La Curieuuse was scuttled in Toulon on 27.11.1942. First planned to be used by Italy as F.R.55, the ship was taken over by Germany after the Italian surrender in September 1943. Commissioned as SG16 in May 1944. During the Invasion of France the ship was docked in Marseilles and scuttled on 22.08.1944. It was scrapped in 1945.
Ship data
Technical profile
Dimensions, weapons and machinery.
Armament
- Main battery
- 2 x 10 cm
- Additional guns
- 6 x 3,7cm
- Additional guns
- 14 x 2 cm
- Additional guns
- 1 Föhn Launcher
- Depth charges
- 2 DC
Performance
- Machinery and speed
- 4600 shp, 20 kn
Service record
Construction record
- Laid down
- Chant. Nav. Lorient, 1938
- Launched
- 11.11.1939
- Commissioned
- May 1944 in German services
- Fate
- sunk 22.08.1944