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NO 7 torpedo boat (1876)


Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

N° 7

Arsenal de Brest: N° 7

1876: N° 7

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1887: N° 7



Technical data


Displacement normal, t

22

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

14.8

Breadth, m

2.79

Draught, m

0.99

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 CR, 1 Belleville boiler

Power, h. p.105
Max speed, kts

14

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1  - 350 TT (bow)

Complement10


Project history

No.7 was unable to make her designed speed, the best on trials being 10.17kts. The TT was not satisfactory and was replaced by a spar torpedo.

Modernizations

late 1870s: - 1 - 350 TT; + 1 spar torpedo

Naval service

Condemned as а ТВ in 1887, she was renamed Compagnon and used as a utility craft. Finally discarded 1910.