France building netlayer Gladiateur according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1933 no. 2

An item referred to the magazine N.&M. Rec. dated 25 January that in next April the French net layer Gladiateur was (1) to be launched and would probably be completed in January 1934.(1) With a displacement of about 2.400 tons were her dimensions 113 x 12,70 x 3,50 metres and allowed her total horsepower of 8.000 hp a minimum speed of 20 knots. The armament consisted of 4-9cm guns and 6 machineguns. Further more were other vessels like gunboats fitted out as boom defence vessels. The Royal British Navy possessed a similar vessel HMS Guardian (2) which also served as target tug. With a displacement of 3.050 tons were her dimensions 94 x 16,5 metres. Her armament consisted of 2-10,4cm guns.

Notes

1. Laid down at the Arsenal de Lorient, launched on 10 April 1933 and completed in 1935. To prevent her captured by the German forces was she scuttled by her own crew at Toulon on 27 November 1942. Italian forces managed to salvage her on 30 Mach a year later. Afterwards was she captured by the German forces and in January 1944 commissioned in German service as the SG18. On 4 February during an Allied air attack bombed and sunk.

2. Launched at the Chatham dockyard on 1 September 1932 and broken in or after December 1962 at Troon.