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Zélée Thanks to Christophe Blondel for correction of the information.

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Surprise			Normand, Le Havre		24.4.1895	1896	sunk 3.12.1916
Décidée			Arsenal de Lorient		1898	1898	stricken 1922
Zélée			Arsenal de Rochefort		18.10.1899	1900	scuttled 22.9.1914

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	617 - 637
Displacement full, t
Length, m	56.0 - 56.3 pp
Breadth, m	7.92 - 8.00
Draught, m	3.71 max
No of shafts	1
Machinery	Surprise: 1 HTE, 2 cylindrical boilers Décidée, Zélée: 1 HTE, 2 Niclausse boilers
Power, h. p.	900
Max speed, kts	13
Fuel, t	coal 74
Endurance, nm(kts)	2700(10)
Armament	2 x 1 - 100/45 M1891, 4 x 1 - 65/50 M1891, 4 x 1 - 37/20 M1885
Complement	99

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Project history

Colonial steel-hulled gunboats with auxiliary barquentine rig.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Surprise was 3.12.1916 torpedoed by German submarine U38 off Azores. Zélée landed her guns on Tahiti and scuttled 29.9.1914 at Papéete to block the harbour to avoid attack of German cruisers.



Thanks to Christophe Blondel for correction of the information.