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TOCSIN sailing bomb vessels (1855)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Tocsin     Arsenal de Lorient 22.11.1854 3.4.1855 5/1855 stricken 8.1857
Bombe     Arsenal de Lorient 11/1854 18.4.1855 5/1855 schooner 1858, stricken 10.1859
Fournaise     Arsenal de Lorient 12/1854 24.4.1855 5/1855 stricken 6.1858
Torche     Arsenal de Lorient 12.12.1854 2.5.1855 5/1855 stricken 6.1858
Trombe     Arsenal de Lorient 12.12.1854 5.5.1855 6/1855 stricken 8.1857

 

Displacement normal, t

183

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

24.0 pp

Breadth, m

6.24

Draught, m

1.98

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

 

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 305/3 SBML mortars

Complement

21

Project history: Bomb vessels, designed for Crimean War service. Rigged as brig-schooners and were designed to be towed into action by screw gunboats. Both mortars fired starboard.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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