An item referred to the magazine le Yacht reporting that the French destroyer Dunois performed her temporarily trials and developed with the boiler feeding finally improved 7.300 hp which was more as the contracted 6,400 hp. A second item reported that she achieved at her official trial with natural draught 3.600 ihp and a speed of 19,34 miles. Coal consumption was 0,725 kg/hp/hour.(1)
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1. Of the Dunois-class with as sister ship La Hire. Laid down at the Arsenal de Cherbourg, France in September 1896, launched on 6 October 1897, completed in December 1898 and stricken in 1920.