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NO 2 torpedo boat (1878)


Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

N° 2

Arsenal de Rochefort: N° 2

1878: N° 2

none

none

1880: N° 2



Technical data


Displacement normal, t

31.5

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

21.6 wl

Breadth, m

3.51

Draught, m

2.59

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 CR, 1 locomotive boiler

Power, h. p.

100

Max speed, kts

13

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 spar torpedo

Complement8


Project history

No.2 proved to have insufficient stability and made only 11kts.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Renamed Vergeroux in December 1880, she was used as a workboat for the coastal artillery at Rochefort.