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REVOLVER iron gunboats (1869-1871)

Names

Revolver

Mitralleuse

Builders

Claparède, Petit-Quevilly: Revolver, Mitralleuse

Completed

1869: Revolver

1871: Mitralleuse

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1889: Revolver, Mitralleuse

 

Displacement normal, t

48

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

15.9 pp

Breadth, m

4.57

Draught, m

1.09 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 SE, boiler

Power, h. p.

35

Max speed, kts

6.5

Fuel, t

coal 3

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 139/18 M1864/66 MLR

Complement

16

Project history: Iron-hulled gunboats of peculiar shape, resembling a slipper with an arched hollow on each side of the keel. They originally mounted a 240mm and then a 194mm gun, both of which were much too heavy.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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