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FRENCH NAVY (FRANCE)

TORPEDO SHIPS

NO 8 torpedo boats (1879)

Names

N° 8 - 19

Builders

Thornycroft, Chiswick, UK: N° 8 - 19

Completed

1879: N° 8 - 19

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1894: N° 12, 14-16

1895: N° 11, 13, 17, 19

1896: N° 8, 10

1897: N° 18

1899: N° 9

  

Displacement normal, t

26

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

26.6

Breadth, m

3.30

Draught, m

1.50

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 CR, 1 locomotive boiler

No.19: 1 CR,1  Trépardou boiler

Power, h. p.

300

Max speed, kts

18

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 spar torpedo

No.19: 1 - 350 TT (bow)

Complement

10

Project history: They performed very well and were excellent sea boats for their size.

Modernizations: 1880s, No.10, 16: - 1 spar torpedo; + 2 Maupóu TT

Naval service: All remained in service for over 15 years. No.14 was used for trials on a Du Temple boiler and after being stricken as à ÒÂ in 1894 was reclassified is a remorquer and renamed Économe. Most had a small funnel so that the spar torpedo would clear it, but No.19 was fitted with 2 funnels on trials and with a Trépardoux boiler, and also received TTs.

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