Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
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Agile | F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne | 4.7.1889 | 1889 | sold 1912 | |||
Audacieux | F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne | 8.5.1889 | 1889 | collision 10.7.1896 | |||
Eclaire | F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne | 29.8.1891 | 1891 | sold 1911 | |||
Kabyle | F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne | 11.1891 | 1892 | sold 1911 | |||
Orage | F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne | 15.10.1891 | 1892 | sold 1921 | |||
Sarrazin | A C de la Gironde, Bordeaux | 25.6.1892 | 1894 | sold 1908 | |||
Tourbillon | A C de la Gironde, Bordeaux | 10.10.1892 | 1894 | sold 1911 |
Displacement normal, t | 102 |
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Displacement full, t | 119 Sarrazin, Tourbillon: 129 |
Length, m | 43.6 wl Sarrazin, Tourbillon: 44.2 wl |
Breadth, m | 4.55 |
Draught, m | 1.10 |
No of shafts | 1 |
Machinery | Agile, Audacieux: 1 VTE, 1 locomotive boiler Eclaire, Kabyle, Orage: 1 VTE, 2 Thornycroft boilers Sarrazin, Tourbillon: 1 VTE, 2 Du Temple boilers |
Power, h. p. | 1100 |
Max speed, kts | 20 |
Fuel, t | coal 35 |
Endurance, nm(kts) | 3000(10.5) |
Armament | Agile, Audacieux, Eclaire, Kabyle: 3 x 5 - 37/20 M1885, 3 x 1 - 350 TT Orage, Sarrazin, Tourbillon: 3 x 5 - 37/20 M1885, 1 - 380 TT (bow), 1 x 1 - 380 TT |
Complement | 27 |
The prototype pair were ordered on 3.8.1888 to the design of the director of the La Seyne yard. They were not as fast as the Avant-Garde at between 20 and 21kts, but were robust and economical, with a high level of stability, and an unrivalled radius of 3000nm at 10.5kts. The major disadvantages were the single boiler and propeller. They originally had one funnel and two masts. The repeat order for three boats was placed on 2.5.1890, but these were constructed with heavier scantlings and two watertube boilers (hence two funnels). The boilers were highly successful and all three made 21.5kts on trials.
Two further boats had been ordered on 9.4.1890 to a design modified by the Gironde yard, but a series of boiler accidents culminating in the explosion aboard Sarrazin on 13.1.1894 delayed their entry into service for nearly two years while du Temple boilers were substituted instead of original Babillot. They never achieved 21kts, and their Cail-built engines gave frequent trouble. As early as 1896 they could do not more than 18kts.
None.
Audacieux sank after collision 10.7.1896.