N° 1 (1876)
| N° 1 (1876) | |
|---|---|
| Builder: | Claparède, Saint-Denis[1][2] |
| Ordered: | 12 July, 1875[3][4] |
| Laid down: | 25 September, 1875[5][6] |
| Launched: | 1876[7][8] |
| Trials: | March 1877[9] |
| Commissioned: | 17 May, 1878[10][11] |
| Stricken: | 25 July, 1889[12] |
| Fate: | Discarded |
N° 1 was a torpedo boat completed for the French Navy in 1877.
Construction
N° 1's plans were drawn up by the Direction du Matériel and approved on 16 December, 1874. They were based on an 1872 proposal by Emilé Ernest Clément.[13]
N° 1 was laid down on 25 September, 1875 by Claparède et Cie of Saint-Denis. She was steel-hulled with an iron stem and stern.[14]
Service
After commissioning N° 1 was used for trials. The officer in charge of the first French torpedo boats' trials reported that N° 1 was superior to N° 3 in terms of speed but inferior in stability and handling. He also considered her size (38.61 meters long and 120 tons displacement) "excessive".[15]
She was proposed for condemnation of 28 April, 1883 but on 30 May it was decided instead to convert her into a third-class aviso de flottille for harbor defense duties at Cherbourg. For her new role she was renamed Isard. Stricken on 25 July, 1889.[16][17]
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Lieutenant de vaisseau Jules Brossard de Corbigny, before 1 January, 1880[18] – 1881[19]
- Lieutenant de vaisseau Charles Aubert, 1881[20] – 1881[21]
- Lieutenant de vaisseau Augustin Boué de Lapeyrère, 17 November, 1881[22] – 17 November, 1882[23]
- Lieutenant de vaisseau Paul Germinet, 17 November, 1882[24] – 15 May, 1883[25]
Armament
As Completed
- Two 14 inch torpedoes
1883
- One spar torpedo
- Two 47mm guns
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 330.
- ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 281.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 330.
- ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 281.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 330.
- ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 281.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 330.
- ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 281.
- ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 281.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 330.
- ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 281.
- ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 281.
- ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 281.
- ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 281.
- ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 281.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 330.
- ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 281.
- ↑ Annuaire de la Marine 1880. p. 681.
- ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 281.
- ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 281.
- ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 281.
- ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 281.
- ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 281.
- ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 281.
- ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 281.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 330.
- ↑ Le Masson. Torpilleur. p. 281.
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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