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ÉTINCELLE screw gunboats (1855)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Étincelle     Arsenal de Cherbourg 26.11.1854 18.3.1855 5/1855 lost 19.3.1862
Éclair     Arsenal de Cherbourg 26.11.1854 18.4.1855 5/1855 stricken 11.1871
Flamme     Arsenal de Brest 22.11.1854 7.5.1855 5/1855 stricken 3.1872
Grenade     Arsenal de Brest 22.11.1854 7.5.1855 5/1855 stricken 5.1871
Alarme     Arsenal de Toulon 11/1854 3.5.1855 5/1855 stricken 11.1871
Flèche     Arsenal de Toulon 11/1854 9.5.1855 5/1855 stricken 2.1865
Fusée     Arsenal de Toulon 11/1854 16.5.1855 5/1855 stricken 11.1868
Mitraille     Arsenal de Toulon 11/1854 24.5.1855 6/1855 stricken 11.1868
Dragonne     Normand, Le Havre 12/1854 12.5.1855 5/1855 stricken 3.1867
Aigrette     Normand, Le Havre 12/1854 15.5.1855 5/1855 explosion 17.8.1859
Fulminante     Normand, Le Havre 12/1854 20.5.1855 6/1855 stricken 2.1865
Avalanche     Normand, Le Havre 12/1854 26.5.1855 6/1855 stricken 11.1866


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

484

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

45.4 pp

Toulon-built: 44.4 pp

Brest-built: 43.9 pp

Breadth, m

7.76

Draught, m

2.47

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 HP SE, boilers

Power, h. p.

110nhp

Max speed, kts 
Fuel, t

coal 41

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

4 x 1 - 194/16 50pdr SBML

Complement

79



Project history

1st class gunboats, wooden hulls.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Étincelle was lost 19.3.1862 during cyclone in the Mozambique Channel. Aigrette sunk 17.8.1859 by boiler explosion off Antivari (Adriatic Sea).