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PIQUE screw gunboats (1863)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Pique     Arsenal de Toulon 7/1861 16.10.1862 2/1863 stricken 11.1886
Décidée     Arsenal de Toulon 9/1861 11.12.1862 2/1863 stricken 11.1884
Surprise     Arsenal de Toulon 3/1862 19.2.1863 10/1863 stricken 11.1885
Tactique     Arsenal de Toulon 6/1862 19.3.1863 10/1863 stricken 1.1886


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

360 - 405

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

38.8 wl

Breadth, m

6.72

Draught, m

2.62 - 3.00 max

No of shafts

1

Pique: 2

Machinery

sails + 1 2-cyl SE, direct connecting rod, geared, oval boilers

Pique: 2 2-cyl SE, oval boilers

Power, h. p.

175 - 205

Max speed, kts

7.3 - 9.2

Fuel, t

coal 25 - 35

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 165/17 M1858 MLR

Complement

59



Project history

2nd class gunboats, wooden hulls.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.