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Part of the Chacal- or Jaguar-class succeeded by Guépard-class, main task was to act as scouts for the battle line. Total six build. In the designing process was a 1,780 tons design armed with 5-10cm.3.8” guns of early 1920 not approved by the French Parliament. A new design was made on base of the designs of the Italian Leone-class and the German destroyer SM 113 which was after the First World War handed over to France as war reparations and commissioned in the French navy as Admiral Sénés. The new design was approved under the 1922 Naval Law. Ordered on 18 April 1922. Laid down by Arsenal de Lorient on slipway No. 7 on 24 August 1922, launched on 17 November 1923, commissioned on 24 July 1926, completed on 7 October 1926, taken into service on 19 November 1926 and after she was torpedoed by a German E-boat off Dunkirk, France beached and lost on 23 May 1940.
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