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LAMOTTE-PICQUET screw avisos (1860-1863)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Lamotte-Picquet     Arsenal de Cherbourg 21.4.1858 18.5.1859 1/1860 stricken 2.1881
Coëtlogon     Arsenal de Cherbourg 21.4.1858 4.6.1859 2/1860 stricken 11.1877
Curieux     Émile Cardon, Honfleur 6/1860 13.12.1860 6/1861 stricken 2.1879
Diamant     Lucien Arman, Bordeaux 15.12.1859 8.5.1861 15.10.1861 stricken 5.1878
Lutin     Lucien Arman, Bordeaux 15.12.1859 25.4.1861 3.10.1861 stricken 2.1868
Lynx     Moulinié & Labat, Bordeaux 1.12.1859 10.5.1861 12.3.1862 stricken 6.1866
Tancrède     Jean, Gustave & Arnaud Bichon, Bordeaux-Lormont 1.12.1859 25.5.1861 5/1862 stricken 6.1866
Adonis     Lucien Arman, Ajaccio 1860 15.1.1863 10/1863 stricken 3.1883
Amphion     Lucien Arman, Ajaccio 1860 9.5.1863 10/1863 wrecked 21.4.1866


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

672

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

56.5 pp

Breadth, m

8.50

Draught, m

3.82

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 2-cyl SE return connecting rod, boilers

Power, h. p.

570

Max speed, kts

7.9 - 11.3

Fuel, t

coal 100

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML

Adonis, Amphion: 4 x 1 - 121/15 bronze field MLR

Complement

65



Project history

150nhp screw 2nd class avisos, wooden hulls.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Amphion wrecked 21.4.1866 at Vera Cruz.