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FRENCH NAVY (FRANCE)

TORPEDO SHIPS

NO 2 torpedo boat (1878)

Names

N° 2

Builders

Arsenal de Rochefort: N° 2

Completed

1878: N° 2

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1880: N° 2

  

Displacement normal, t

31.5

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

21.6 wl

Breadth, m

3.51

Draught, m

2.59

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 CR, 1 locomotive boiler

Power, h. p.

100

Max speed, kts

13

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 spar torpedo

Complement

8

Project history: No.2 proved to have insufficient stability and made only 11kts.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Renamed Vergeroux in December 1880, she was used as a workboat for the coastal artillery at Rochefort.

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