NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Sphinx			Arsenal de Rochefort	26.6.1828	31.8.1829	2/1830	wrecked 6.7.1845
Crocodile			Indret, Nantes	9/1829	10.10.1832	2/1833	stricken 3.1856
Chimère			Indret, Nantes	7/1831	29.10.1833	1/1834	stricken 1.1861
Salamandre			Indret, Nantes	1831	26.12.1833	3/1834	wrecked 26.12.1835
Fulton			Arsenal de Rochefort	21.2.1832	6.4.1833	11/1833	stricken 3.1867
Styx			Indret, Nantes	6/1832	17.9.1834	12/1834	stricken 7.1867
Météore			Arsenal de Rochefort	1.1.1833	28.10.1833	7/1834	stricken 4.1867
Phare			Indret, Nantes	6/1833	14.3.1835	4/1835	stricken 4.1865
Cerbère			Indret, Nantes	2/1834	16.2.1836	1836	stricken 12.1864
Papin			Indret, Nantes	2/1834	3.2.1836	1836	wrecked 6.12.1845
Tartare			Indret, Nantes	5/1834	14.7.1836	12/1836	stricken 7.1867
Achéron			Arsenal de Rochefort	21.1.1835	18.12.1835	10/1836	stricken 11.1869
Etna			Indret, Nantes	2/1835	28.7.1836	8/1836	wrecked 20.1.1847
Cocyte			Indret, Nantes	2/1835	7.4.1837	5/1837	sail transport 8.1859
Phaéton			Indret, Nantes	4/1836	28.10.1837	11/1837	stricken 12.1849
Tonnerre			Indret, Nantes	9.3.1836	24.2.1838	7/1838	transport 3.1854
Euphrate			Indret, Nantes	15.1.1837	28.4.1839	10/1839	stricken 2.1862
Brandon			Arsenal de Lorient	1837	20.12.1839	3/1841	wrecked 21.12.1841
Grondeur			Arsenal de Lorient	9.6.1837	16.3.1839	6/1839	transport 3.1853
Grégeois			Arsenal de Cherbourg	20.2.1838	17.1.1839	11/1839	hospital ship 1.1841

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	910 - 934 (first 4) 894-910 (later)
Displacement full, t
Length, m	47.3 pp
Breadth, m	8.18 (first 4) 8.20 (later)
Draught, m	3.75 mean (first 4) 3.62 (later)
No of shafts	side wheels
Machinery	sails + 1 2-cyl SE side-lever, 1 Fawcett flue boiler or 2 Maudslay flue boilers
Power, h. p.	320
Max speed, kts	8
Fuel, t	coal 170
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	Sphinx, Crocodile, Chimère, Salamandre: 6 x 1 - 151/8 24pdr SBML carronades Fulton and later: 2 x 1 - 151/8 24pdr SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 139/18 SBML
Complement	77 - 93

Project history

160nhp steam vessels, later paddle 1st class avisos.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Sphinx wrecked 6.7.1845 in fog at Cape Matifou on the Algerian coast. Salamandre wrecked 26.12.1835 on the Algerian coast near Mostaganem. Papin wrecked 6.12.1845 at Mazagran on the Moroccan coast. Etna wrecked 20.1.1847 near Cape Ténès, Algeria. Tonnerre was blown ashore 10.10.1846 at Habana in a hurricane, salvaged in 1847 and recommissioned. Brandon wrecked 21.12.1841 on the St. Philippe rocks near the entrance to Port Mahon, Minorca.