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OTHER FIGHTING SHIPS

RAFALE screw gun launches (1855)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Rafale     Arsenal de Toulon 2/1855 3.5.1855 6/1855 stricken 11.1862
Tirailleuse     Arsenal de Toulon 2/1855 4.5.1855 6/1855 stricken 4.1876
Alerte     Arsenal de Toulon 2/1855 9.5.1855 6/1855 stricken 12.1874
Bourrasque     Arsenal de Toulon 2/1855 12.5.1855 6/1855 stricken 6.1867
Couleuvrine     Arsenal de Toulon 2/1855 16.5.1855 6/1855 stricken 3.1868
Mutine     Arsenal de Toulon 2/1855 23.5.1855 6/1855 stricken 12.1874
Stridente     Arsenal de Toulon 2/1855 27.5.1855 6/1855 wrecked 31.8.1859
Meutrière     Arsenal de Toulon 2/1855 30.5.1855 6/1855 stricken 4.1868

 

Displacement normal, t

144

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

31.0 pp

Breadth, m

6.20

Draught, m

1.46

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 2-cyl SE, boilers

Power, h. p.

25nhp

Max speed, kts

6

Fuel, t

coal 12

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 165/17 MLR, 2 x 1 - 138/8 SBML carronades

Complement

40

Project history: Screw gun launches, wooden hulls.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Stridente was washed ashore by the tidal wave at Rufisque, Senegal 31.8.1859 and was stricken in December.

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