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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