N° 7 (1876)
| N° 7 (1875) | |
|---|---|
| Builder: | Arsenal de Brest[1] |
| Ordered: | 9 May 1875[2] |
| Laid down: | 1875[3][4] |
| Launched: | 1876[5][6] |
| Completed: | 1876[7][8] |
| Stricken: | 10 May 1886[9] |
| Condemned: | 1909[10] |
N° 7 was a torpedo boat completed for the French Navy in 1876.
Construction
N° 7 was designed by mécanicien principal de 2e classe Juhel, along the lines of the March 1875 proposals of the Commission Permanente des Défenses Sous-Marines. She was intended for defensive work inside harbors or river estuaries. Her machinery was built by F C de la Méditerranée.[11]
Service
N° 7 was completed and began trials in 1876. Her original Belleville boiler consumed too much coal and was replaced with a similar but heavier one in July 1877. Her bow-mounted torpedo tube proved unservicable and was replaced with a spar torpedo around the same time.[12]
After reboilering, N° 7 remained out of water on a slip at Arsenal de Brest except for occasional trials. In June 1888 she was renamed Compagnon and became a tender to the hydrographic survey ship Chimère. Compagnon became an engineering school ship at the Ecole des mécaniciens de Brest in 1894. She lasted over a decade in this service and was finally discarded in 1909.[13][14]
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
Armament
As Completed
- One torpedo tube
c. 1877
- One spar torpedo
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 283.
- ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 283.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 331.
- ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 283.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 331.
- ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 283.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 331.
- ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 283.
- ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 283.
- ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 283.
- ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 283.
- ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 283.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 331.
- ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 283.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 331.
- ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 283.
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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