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IRIS sailing schooners (1818-1845)


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Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Iris     Arsenal de Rochefort 7/1817 6.4.1818 1818 stricken 11.1844
Béarnaise     Bayonne 7/1819 17.5.1820 9/1820 condemned 3.1837
Hirondelle     Bayonne 7/1819 31.5.1820 9/1820 condemned 4.1837
Lyonnaise     Bayonne 17.9.1820 31.5.1821 8/1821 school ship 1832, stricken 3.1838
Provençale     Bayonne 9/1820 14.6.1821 9/1821 stricken 6.1827
Philomèle     Bayonne 2/1822 2.8.1822 12/1822 stricken 12.1834
Gloriole     Bayonne 2/1822 2.8.1822 1/1823 wrecked 12.7.1823
Dauphinoise     Bayonne 2/1823 25.6.1823 8/1823 stricken 1837
Artésienne     Bayonne 2/1823 25.6.1823 9/1823 stricken 1836
Toulonnaise     Arsenal de Toulon 4/1823 5/1823 9/1823 stricken 12.1843
Mésange     Arsenal de Toulon 4/1823 24.7.1823 8/1823 stricken 7.1851
Fauvette     Bayonne 9/1823 13.3.1824 4/1824 stricken 1836
Turquoise     Bayonne 9/1823 16.3.1824 4/1824 lost 11.2.1829
Daphné     Arsenal de Lorient 3/1824 9.8.1824 12/1824 stricken 1833
Daphné     Arsenal de Lorient 15.12.1835 17.3.1836 4/1836 stricken 2.1843
Levrette     Arsenal de Lorient 1/1836 21.3.1836 5/1836 wrecked 14.1.1846
Fine     Saint-Servan 3/1836 26.8.1836 9/1836 stricken 3.1850
Doris     Saint-Servan 3/1836 26.8.1836 11/1836 foundered 14.9.1845
Estafette     Arsenal de Brest 4.4.1842 23.7.1842 8/1842 stricken 7.1856
Gazelle     Arsenal de Brest 1.4.1842 31.10.1842 2/1843 stricken 9.1855
Hirondelle     Arsenal de Toulon 10/1842 9.9.1843 2/1844 stricken 4.1857, restored 10.1857, stricken 10.1865
Topaze     Arsenal de Toulon 4/1843 29.6.1844 1845 stricken 4.1857


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

157

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

25.2 pp

Breadth, m

6.41

Draught, m

3.30

No of shafts 
Machinery

sails

Power, h. p. 
Max speed, kts 
Fuel, t 
Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1st 6 units: 6 x 1 - 151/8 24pdr SBML carronades

others: 6 x 1 - 138/8 18pdr SBML carronades

Complement

61



Project history

6-gun schooners.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Gloriole wrecked 12.7.1823 on the Portugal coast. Turquoise lost with all hands 11.2.1829 near Ile Bourbon in a cyclone. Levrette wrecked 14.1.1846 off La Guaira, Venezuela. Doris capsized and sank 14.9.1845 moored in Brest harbour hit by a squall.