French gunboat Flèche (1855)
 Portrait of Flèche
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| History | |
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| Name | Flèche |
| Namesake | Arrow |
| Builder | Toulon [1] |
| Laid down | December 1854 [1] |
| Launched | 10 June 1855 [1] |
| Commissioned | June 1855 [1] |
| Stricken | 11 February 1865 |
| Fate | Broken up in 1882[1] |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type | Étincelle-class gunboat |
| Tons burthen | 350 tonnes |
| Length | 43.9 m (144 ft 0 in) |
| Beam | 7.8 m (25 ft 7 in) |
| Draught | 3.2 m (10 ft 6 in) |
| Propulsion |
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| Complement | 78 |
| Armament |
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| Armour | Timber |
Flèche was an Étincelle-class gunboat of the French Navy. She served in the Crimean War before being used for hydrographic surveys and eventually as a coal hulk at Brest.
Career
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Flèche took part in the Battle of Kinburn in 1855. She served in the Adriatic Sea from 1859, and in Mexico from 1863.[1]
She conducted hydrographic surveys off Brest from 1864. In 1877, she was hulked and used as a coal depot in Brest until 1862, when she was broken up.[1]
Citations
[edit]References
[edit]- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. Vol. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 203. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.