but was too small to accommodate the propulsion machinery necessary to achieve the intended speed. As the detailed design was prepared over the next two years, the Le Hardis were enlarged and given extra guns to counter the large destroyers of the Italian and Japanese es. Now significantly larger and faster than the L'Adroits, the Le Hardi-class design was approved on 10 August 1934. The ships had an overall length of , a beam of , and a draught of . They displaced at standard load and at deep load. The hull was divided by a dozen bulkheads into 13 watertight compartments. The Le Hardis were equipped with a pair of turbogenerators and a pair of diesel generators. Their crew consisted of 10 officers and 177 enlisted men. The Le Hardi-class ships were powered by two geared steam turbines, each driving a single three-bladed propeller, using steam provided by four Sural-Penhöet forced-circulation boilers that operated at a pressure of and a temperature of . The turbines were designed to produce intended to give the ships a speed of . Le Hardi, the only ship of the class to run sea trials, comfortably exceeded that speed during her trials on 6 November 1939, reaching a maximum speed of from . The Le Hardi class carried of fuel oil which gave them a range of at . Armament and protection The main armament of the Le Hardi-class ships consisted of six 45-caliber Canon de 130 mm Modèle 1932 guns in three twin-gun turrets, one forward and a superfiring pair aft of the superstructure. The electrically powered turrets were protected by of armour. The guns had an elevation range between −10° and +30° and each one was provided with 170 semi-armour-piercing and 10 star shells. They fired a shell at a muzzle velocity of . This gave them a range of at an elevation of 30°. The Modèle 1932 guns had a rate of fire of 10–15 rounds per minute although the rammer was underpowered and often caused jams in the loading system. In one engagement against a British destroyer in September 1940, was only able to fire 14 rounds in six minutes before all her guns broke down. Given time and training, these problems could be fixed as Le Hardi demonstrated during the Battle of Dakar when she fired 60 rounds without any problems; she had previously fired over 700 rounds during