Lamotte-Picquet (ship, 1919)
The Lamotte-Picquet was an armed coastal transporter of the French Navy , which served as a flying boat tender from 1934 . The ship was named after the French admiral Picquet de la Motte (1720-1791). When the construction of the light cruiser Lamotte-Picquet was decided, the name was given up and the ship was renamed Adour on June 26, 1922 and Alfred de Courcy two years later .
Construction and technical data
The ship was launched on 26 September 1919 at the shipyard Chantiers de la Loire from the stack . It was 51.25 meters long and 7.90 meters wide, had a 4.25 meter draft , and displaced 700 tons . Two coal-fired steam boilers gave it 1200 horsepower and a top speed of 12 knots . The bunker capacity was 112 tons. The ship was armed with a 90 mm gun. The crew consisted of 2 officers and 25 men.
history
The ship served from 1920, with home port in Toulon , as a transport and escort ship in the Mediterranean . From 1934 it was used as a supply tender for flying boats and seaplanes . In 1937 it was decommissioned and scrapped.
Web links
- Les bâtiments ayant porté le nom de La Motte-Picquet ( Memento of June 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )