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TORPEDO SHIPS

NO 4 torpedo boat (1875)

Names

N° 4, 3.1883- Djoné

Builders

Yarrow, Scotstoun, UK: N° 4

Completed

1875: N° 4

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1895: Djoné

  

Displacement normal, t

17.5

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

22.0 pp

Breadth, m

3.00

Draught, m

1.83

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 CR, 1 locomotive boiler

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

13

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 spar torpedo

Complement

8

Project history: Both stability and speed were insufficient and she made too much smoke.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: She was judged unusable as a torpedo boat and it was proposed to sell her in December 1874. In 1883 she was transformed into an aviso de flotille and transported tî the Congo.

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