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TACTIQUE sailing brigs (1839-1846)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Tactique     Arsenal de Rochefort 20.12.1838 29.3.1839 5/1839 stricken 5.1858
Vigie     Arsenal de Rochefort 24.12.1838 30.3.1839 5/1839 stricken 5.1858
Églantine     Arsenal de Lorient 2.1.1839 13.6.1839 9/1839 stricken 5.1858
Boulonnaise     Arsenal de Lorient 12/1838 16.5.1839 8/1839 stricken 1846
Alouette     Arsenal de Cherbourg 2.1.1839 14.5.1839 8/1839 stricken 5.1858
Vedette     Arsenal de Cherbourg 2.1.1839 14.5.1839 8/1839 wrecked 6.10.1842
Chevrette     Arsenal de Cherbourg 5.10.1842 23.9.1843 1/1846 collision 19.10.1846
Panthère     Arsenal de Lorient 17.2.1841 17.2.1844 3/1844 stricken 5.1858

 

Displacement normal, t

265

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

28.1 pp

Breadth, m

7.70

Draught, m

2.83

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

 

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

4 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML

Complement

50

Project history: 4-gun gunbrigs.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Vedette wrecked 6.10.1842 on the West coast of Miquelon. Chevrette sunk 19.10.1846 after collision with transport Prévoyante in the entrance to the Firth of Forth, Scotland.

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