Built as sloop for the French Navy by the yard of Hamilton at Glasgow.
She was one of a class of ships built for the French Navy on British yards, the design was mostly made after the Flower Class of the British Royal Navy.
08 March 1916 keel laid down.
04 September 1916 launched under the name ANTARES.
Displacements 1.140 minimum, 1.470 tons maximum, dim. 81.5 x 10.5 x 4.2m.
One 4 cyl. Expansion steam engine, 2.800 hp., speed 17 knots maximum.
Bunker capacity 440 tons coal.
Radius 3.000 miles.
Armament 2 – 13.9, 4 – 4.7 inch guns after World War I 2 – 7.5 inch guns.
Crew 8 Officers and 97 ratings.
30 October 1916 completed.
05 August 1917 the ANTARES rammed the German submarine U39, the U 39 was damaged but did not sink.
She sailed from Brest on 23 June 1930 for the Antarctic waters, to support French claims over the sovereignty over the Crozet and St Paul-Amsterdam archipelago.
After a call at Diego-Suarez and Durban, the ANTARES was off Apotres on 16 January 1931. On 17 January she anchored off Possession Island, where she put an engraved plate, which proved the French claim over the islands.
From there she sailed to the Kerguelen Islands, where she arrived on 22 January, she stayed there until the 25th.
Arrived on 10 February off St Paul and Amsterdam Islands, she circumnavigated Amsterdam Island before she set course to Mauritius where she arrived on 18 February 1931.
20 May 1936 withdrawn from service.
French Southern and Antarctic Territories 1981 8f40 sg166, scott?
Translated mostly from Motivhandbuch Schiffe und Schiffarth Teil IV: Südsee. (Navicula)