An item reported that the French destroyers la Hire with new machinery achieved a speed of 22,1 miles which was 0,8 miles faster although still too slow for the contracted speed of 23 miles.(1)
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1. Of the Dunois-class with as sister ship Dunois. Laid down at the Arsenal de Cherbourg, France in November 1897, launched on 3 November 1898, completed in 1899, training ship between 1914 and stricken in October 1922.
