N° 3 (1876)

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N° 3 (1876)
Builder: Claparède, Saint-Denis[1][2]
Ordered: 12 July, 1875[3][4]
Laid down: 1875[5]
Launched: 1876[6][7]
Trials: December 1876[8]
Completed: 1877[9]
Stricken: 25 May, 1885[10]
Discarded: c. 1887[11]

N° 3 was a torpedo boat completed for the French Navy in 1876.

Construction

Ordered on 12 July, 1875 along with N° 1 from Claparède, Saint-Denis. N° 3 was laid down later that year and launched in 1876, and was ready for trials by the end of the year.[12][13]

Service

N° 3 commenced trials in December 1876, which continued through July 1877. During trials she proved to be a good seaboat, her only flaw being a somewhat disappointing speed of 12.32 knots instead of the expected 14 knots. Her greatest service as a torpedo boat was her use in early torpedo tube trials. For these, N° 3 was fitted with a single fixed bronze tube on her deck which was powered by compressed air.[14][15]

Renamed Chevrette and designated as a aviso de flottille in March 1883. She was later towed to Le Havre by the gunboat Lionne, where she was fitted with experimental oil-fired boilers built by F C de la Méditerranée. Rerated as a yard craft in February 1885, she was stricken from the fleet list three months later on 25 May, Chevrette was used as a tug at Cherbourg until 1887.[16][17]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Armament

[18][19]

  • One spar torpedo

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 330.
  2. ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 282.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 330.
  4. ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 282.
  5. ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 282.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 330.
  7. ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 282.
  8. ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 282.
  9. ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 282.
  10. ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 282.
  11. ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 282.
  12. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 330.
  13. ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 282.
  14. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 330.
  15. ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 282.
  16. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 330.
  17. ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 282.
  18. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 330.
  19. ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 282.

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Le Masson, Henri (1967). Histoire du Torpilleur en France. Paperback ed. Paris: Académie de Marine.


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