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BALNY sea-going torpedo boats (1886)
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Capitaine Cuny
Ships
| Names | Builders | Completed | Losses | Transfers | Discarding |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Balny Déroulède Doudart de la Grée Edmond Fontaine Bouet Willaumez Dehorter Capitaine Cuny Capitaine Mehl Challier |
A C Augustin-Normand, Le Havre: Balny, Déroulède, Doudart de la Grée Claparède, Rouen: Edmond Fontaine, Bouet Willaumez, Dehorter A C de la Loire, St-Nazaire: Capitaine Cuny, Capitaine Mehl, Challier |
1886: Balny, Déroulède, Doudart de la Grée, Edmond Fontaine, Bouet Willaumez, Dehorter, Capitaine Cuny, Capitaine Mehl, Challier |
Bouet Willaumez (1.9.1900) |
none |
1903: Edmond Fontaine 1904: Dehorter 1906: Doudart de la Grée, Challier 1907: Déroulède 1910: Capitaine Mehl 1912: Capitaine Cuny 1913: Balny |
Technical data
| Displacement normal, t | 58 |
|---|---|
| Displacement full, t | 65 |
| Length, m | 40.7 wl |
| Breadth, m | 3.33 |
| Draught, m | 1.15 |
| No of shafts | 1 |
| Machinery | 1 CR, 1 locomotive boiler |
| Power, h. p. | 580 |
| Max speed, kts | 19 |
| Fuel, t | coal 12 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
| Armament | 2 x 5 - 37/20 M1885, 2 - 350 TT (bow) |
| Complement | 22 |
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Capitaine Cuny
Project history
The Normand boats were ordered on 9.8.1884, the Claparède and Loire vessels on 23.2.1885. Designed by Normand on the basis of the TB Poti they had built for Russia, the plans were reluctantly released to the other builders on the orders of the Ministry of the Marine. At service displacement the Normand boats could reach 19kts and the Loire boats about 18.7kts, but the Claparède vessels could only manage 18.25kts. Experience proved that they were too small for fleet duties and in January 1890 they were assigned to the 'defense mobile'.
Modernizations
None.
Naval service
Bouet Willaumez wrecked 1.9.1900.
