Le Fier-class torpedo boat

Class overview
Name	Le Fier class
Builders	Ateliers et Chantiers de Bretagne, Nantes, Brittany; Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Nantes, Brittany;
Operators	French Navy; (1939–1940); Kriegsmarine; (1940–1944);
Preceded by	La Melpomène class
Succeeded by	T 47 class
Subclasses	L'Alsacien class; Torpedoboot Ausland 1 class;
Built	1939–1944
Planned	14
Completed	0
Cancelled	7
General characteristics
Type	Torpedo boat
Displacement	1,010 long tons (1,026 t) (standard)
Length	95 m (311 ft 8 in) o/a
Beam	9.4 m (30 ft 10 in)
Draught	3.25 m (10 ft 8 in)
Installed power	3 Indret boilers; 30,800 shp (23,000 kW);
Propulsion	2 shafts, 2 steam turbines
Speed	33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Range	1,000 nmi (1,900 km; 1,200 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement	7 officers, 129 sailors
Armament	2 × twin 100 mm (3.9 in)/45-calibre DP guns; 4 × single 37 mm (1.46 in) AA guns; 4 × twin 13.2 mm (0.52 in) machine guns; 2 × twin 550 mm (22 in) torpedo tubes;

The Le Fier class was a series of sea-going torpedo boats built for the French Navy. Laid down in 1940, the ships were incomplete as of the fall of France and remained unfinished for the rest of World War II.

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