French ironclad gunboat Fusée

History
France
Name	Fusée
Ordered	5 August 1882
Builder	Arsenal de Lorient
Laid down	10 October 1882
Launched	8 May 1884
Completed	October 1887
Decommissioned	15 October 1910
Stricken	24 March 1910
Fate	Sold for scrap, 24 August 1912
General characteristics (as built)
Class & type	Fusée-class ironclad gunboat
Displacement	1,128 t (1,110 long tons)
Length	50.66 m (166 ft 2 in) (o/a)
Beam	9.95 m (32 ft 8 in)
Draft	3.5 m (11 ft 6 in)
Installed power	3 cylindrical boilers; 1,500 ihp (1,100 kW);
Propulsion	2 propellers, 2 compound-expansion steam engines
Speed	12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Range	850 nmi (1,570 km; 980 mi) at 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)
Complement	93
Armament	1 × single 24 cm (9.4 in) gun; 1 × single 90 mm (3.5 in) gun; 4 × 5-barrel 37 mm (1.5 in) revolver cannon; 1 × 356 mm (14 in) torpedo tube;
Armor	Steel armor; Waterline belt: 160–270 mm (6.3–10.6 in); Barbette: 120–200 mm (4.7–7.9 in); Deck (ship): 20 mm (0.8 in);

Fusée was the lead ship of her class of ironclad gunboats built for the French Navy during the 1880s. Completed in 1887, she spent most of her career in reserve. The ship was sold for scrap in 1912.

References

Campbell, N. J. M. (1979). "The Netherlands". In Gardiner, Robert (ed.). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press. pp. 371–377. ISBN 978-0-8317-0302-8.
Roberts, Stephen S. (2021). French Warships in the Age of Steam 1859–1914: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5267-4533-0.
Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours [Dictionary of French Warships from Colbert to Today] (in French). Vol. Tome I: 1671–1870. Toulon: Roche. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.