NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Alacrity (ex-Colibri)			Arsenal de Toulon	7/1824	25.4.1825	8/1825	stricken 10.1849
Palinure			Arsenal de Toulon	7/1824	9.5.1825	10/1825	bomb vessel 5.1855, brig 1.1856, stricken 11.1862
Cygne			Arsenal de Lorient	26.8.1824	28.7.1825	10/1825	stricken 8.1851
Faucon			Arsenal de Rochefort	20.8.1824	13.8.1825	8/1827	stricken 5.1847
Grenadier			Arsenal de Rochefort	20.8.1824	13.8.1825	10/1827	stricken 7.1849
Alerte			Arsenal de Lorient	8/1824	16.8.1825	7/1827	stricken 6.1845, reinstated 12.1846, stricken 1847
Alcibiade			Arsenal de Toulon	1825	27.3.1826	7/1826	stricken 11.1862
Nisus			Arsenal de Lorient	10/1824	5.7.1826	1/1827	stricken 10.1844
Adonis			Arsenal de Toulon	6/1825	12.2.1827	6/1827	stricken 4.1857
Actéon			Arsenal de Lorient	early 1825	11.4.1827	9/1827	condemned 3.1847
Hussard			Arsenal de Rochefort	7.12.1825	25.6.1827	1/1828	stricken 12.1864
Voltigeur			Arsenal de Rochefort	26.10.1825	25.6.1827	2/1828	stricken 3.1850
Griffon			Arsenal de Brest	7.7.1828	2.7.1829	2/1830	stricken 4.1850
Ducouëdic			Arsenal de Toulon	14.3.1828	26.9.1829	4/1830	stricken 3.1859
D'Assas			Arsenal de Rochefort	19.5.1828	24.3.1830	4/1830	stricken 6.1851
Bisson			Arsenal de Lorient	5/1828	5.7.1830	1831	stricken 4.1844
Méléagre			Arsenal de Lorient-Caudan	26.5.1828	7.7.1830	6/1832	stricken 4.1857
Lapérouse			Arsenal de Lorient	6.10.1830	30.7.1832	4/1837	TS 5.1864, stricken 8.1869
Cassard			Arsenal de Lorient	6.10.1830	10.9.1832	1833	stricken 11.1850
Oreste (ex-Jean de Vienne)			Arsenal de Brest	20.5.1830	4.5.1833	7/1834	bomb vessel 1855, stricken 4.1857
Pylade (ex-Saint-Ouen)			Arsenal de Rochefort	26.8.1830	28/112/1833	5/1835	stricken 4.1857

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	548
Displacement full, t
Length, m	34.2 pp
Breadth, m	9.20
Draught, m	4.57
No of shafts
Machinery	sails
Power, h. p.
Max speed, kts
Fuel, t
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	18 x 1 - 151/8 24pdr SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 139/18 18pdr SBML or 2 x 1 - 121/20 12pdr SBML
Complement	113

Project history

20-gun brigs.

Modernizations

1855, Palinure: was armed with 2 x 1 - 320/3 mortars, 2 x 1 - 165/14 30pdr No.3 SBML

1855, Oreste: was armed with 2 x 1 - 320/3 mortars

1856, Palinure: was armed with 8 x 1 - 151/8 24pdr SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 139/18 18pdr SBML

Naval service

No significant events.