Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A farkon yakin duniya na biyu a 1939, goma sha tara "Arras" -class avisos sun yi ritaya kuma goma sha ɗaya ne kawai suka kasance a cikin aiki. Yawancin jiragen ruwa na aji sun kasance masu aiki a cikin kwashe sojojin Allied bayan faduwar Faransa a watan Yunin 1940. Daya daga cikinsu, "Vauquois" ya nutse ta hanyar ma'adinan ruwa a ranar 18 ga Yuni, 1940. Bayan Armistice na 22 ga Yuni 1940
an sanya hannu tsakanin Nazi Jamus da Faransa ta uku Jamhuriyar, Faransa sojan ruwa ya zama raba biyu. An tsare jiragen ruwa na Faransa a tashar jiragen ruwa na Burtaniya kuma ba da daɗewa ba suka wuce zuwa sabon Sojojin Ruwa na Faransa. Waɗannan su ne "Amiens", "Arras", "Belfort", "Coucy", da "Epinal". Wadannan jiragen ruwa har yanzu a Faransa da kuma mulkin mallaka na mulkin mallaka sun yi rantsuwa da sabon haɗin gwiwar Vichy Faransa na Philippe Pétain. "Calais" ya halarci kare Dakar a watan Satumbar 1940. "Tahure", wanda aka sanya shi a Vichy-wanda aka sarrafa ta Indochina ta Faransa a lokacin yakin Faransa da Thailand kuma ya halarci yakin Koh Chang a ranar 17 ga Janairu 1941. "Tahure" ya nutsar da (Amurka ta yi yaƙi da gwamnatin Vichy ta Faransa tare da Operation Torch) a ranar 29 ga Afrilu, 1944. Duk da yake a cikin Vichy Faransa sabis, "Lassigny" ya yi ritaya a 1941 da kuma "Ypres" (a baya "Dunkerque") ya yi ritaya Afrilu 1942. "Les Éparges" an rushe shi a Toulon a ranar 27 ga watan Nuwambar 1942, amma Jamus ta tashe shi kuma ta canza shi zuwa minesweeper. An sake masa suna "M6060" kuma an ba shi izini a cikin Kriegsmarine a ranar 5 ga Mayu, 1943. Tana cikin aiwatar da sauyawa zuwa jirgi mai rakiyar jirgi kuma aka sake masa suna "SG25" lokacin da ta kama wuta kuma aka yi watsi da aikinta a ranar 1 ga Maris, 1944.