French colonial aviso’s suitable for defensive tasks according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1933 no. 6

An item referred to the magazine N.&M. Rec. dated 30 August 1933 reporting that the French colonial aviso’s achieved a speed during the trials of 18 knots of the designed 15,5 knots. With a speed of 10 knots was their range 10.000 knots. The silhouette made it easy to camouflage them as if they were cruisers. However their tasks were no more as defensive and to cooperate with coastal batteries and aircraft. In fact they needed backup from coastal defence ships with a displacement of around 6.000 ton and fitted out with diesel engines. An earlier edition dated 30 August reported that most experts wanted to maintain the used design for colonial aviso’s (2.000 ton and 3-14cm guns) although some officers wanted to replace them by coast defence ships of 3.300 ton with a speed of 16 knots and 4-12,5cm guns. What they really preferred was a well armoured ship of around 5.000 ton fitted out with diesel engines and 2x2-24cm guns. Such a ship was to be stationed at Indo China and one at Madagascar (Diego Suarez) and to form the hard core of an independent colonial squadron.