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TEMPÊTE screw gunboats (1855)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Tempête     Arsenal de Rochefort 7.12.1854 4.4.1855 5/1855 stricken 10.1866
Tourmente     Arsenal de Rochefort 7.12.1854 4.4.1855 5/1855 stricken 3.1868
Poudre     Auguste Guibert, Nantes 12/1854 30.4.1855 6/1855 stricken 12.1864
Sainte-Barbe     Auguste Guibert, Nantes 12/1854 30.4.1855 6/1855 stricken 12.1865
Lance     Auguste Guibert, Nantes 12/1854 1.5.1855 5/1855 wrecked 22.1.1863
Redoute     Auguste Guibert, Nantes 12/1854 1.5.1855 5/1855 stricken 11.1862
Salve     Auguste Guibert, Nantes 1/1855 4.5.1855 6/1855 stricken 11.1862
Arquebuse     Auguste Guibert, Nantes 1/1855 4.5.1855 7/1855 stricken 11.1862

 

Displacement normal, t

289

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

36.4 pp

Breadth, m

6.72

Draught, m

2.47

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 HP SE, boilers

Power, h. p.

90nhp

Max speed, kts

8.4

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 194/16 50pdr SBML

Complement

59

Project history: 2nd class gunboats, wooden hulls.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Lance grounded 22.1.1863 in the Tampico Bay and burned by crew two days later.

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