Lamotte-Picquet (ship, 1859)

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The Lamotte-Picquet was a screw-driven Aviso 2nd class of the French Navy , named after the French admiral of the 18th century Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte (1720-1791). She was the lead ship of a class of nine units from 1858 to 1860 in Kiel were laid and put into service from 1859 to 1863. The first two units were commissioned at the same time as those of the D'Estaing class in August 1857 from the naval shipyard in Cherbourg . The following seven ships were built at private shipyards , also to give them employment. The Curieux was built in Honfleur , the next four in Bordeaux , and the last two in Ajaccio . The five ships built in Honfleur and Bordeaux were ordered towards the end of 1859, the remaining two in November 1860.

Construction and technical data

The unarmoured, wooden ships had a length of 54.55 meters in the water line and 56.50 m over all and a width of 8.50 m (8.30 in the water line). They had a maximum draft of 3.82 m and displaced 672 tons (standard) and 736 tons (maximum). Three of the ships ( Lamotte-Picquet , Coëtlogon and Curieux ) were equipped with a steam engine from Mazeline Frères ( Le Havre ), the other six with a 2-cylinder engine each from Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée (FCM). The maximum speed under steam was between 7.9 and 11.25 knots during test drives . The bunker capacity was 100 tons. The sail area was 848 to 878 m². The ships had a crew of 65-89 men.

The armament was different and was changed several times. 1860–1862 it consisted of two 16-cm guns. Then four 12-cm bronze muzzle-loading field guns were installed instead . In 1866 these were replaced on the Diamant and the Amphion by one 16-cm and two 12-cm muzzle-loaders. In 1867 the armament was converted into two 14 cm and two 12 cm muzzle loaders. Finally, in 1872, four 14 cm muzzle loaders were installed.

career

The Lamotte-Picquet was laid on 18 February 1858 at the naval arsenal in Cherbourg keel and ran on May 18 in 1859 by the stack . After commissioning on November 24, 1859, she served in the French overseas possessions in West Africa until February 1863, in the South Atlantic from August 1864 to August, and from August 1867 to July 1870 in Indochina and the Pacific. In April 1873, during the unrest in Spain , she evacuated 80 nuns from Málaga to Oran . From January 1974 to December 1875 she again served with the South Atlantic Squadron, then from March to October 1877 on the Newfoundland Station. In May 1878 she went from Toulon to Tahiti ; en route she was used in the suppression of the Kanak uprising in New Caledonia , so that she did not arrive at her new station in Papeete until May 1879 . There she served until March 1880. In July 1880 she returned to Lorient . The armament was expanded, and the ship was removed from the list of active ships on February 26, 1881 and then used in Lorient as a barge and staff ship for a torpedo boat flotilla . It was finally decommissioned in February and scrapped in 1892.

Sister ships

The Amphion ran aground near Vera Cruz on April 21, 1866 and sank. The hulls of the Lutin , Lynx and Tancrède were damaged so quickly that these three ships had to be scrapped again in the years 1866–1868. Your machinery has been reused in other Avisos. The Coëtlogon , Curieux and Diamant were scrapped in 1879. The Adonis ended her career as the Hulk in Rochefort and was scrapped in 1907.

Surname Shipyard Keel laying Launch Commissioning End of service
Lamotte-Picquet Naval Arsenal Cherbourg February 18, 1858 May 18, 1859 November 24, 1859 February 26, 1881, retired
Coëtlogon Naval Arsenal Cherbourg April 21, 1858 June 4, 1859 February 10, 1860 November 2, 1877, retired
Curieux E. Cardon, Honfleur 1860 December 13, 1860 February 13, 1861 February 14, 1879, retired
diamond Arman, Bordeaux December 15, 1859 May 8, 1861 August 1, 1861 May 7, 1878, retired
Lutin Arman, Bordeaux December 15, 1859 April 25, 1861 August 1, 1861 February 13, 1868, retired
Lynx Moulinié, Bordeaux December 1, 1859 May 10, 1861 October 16, 1861 June 21, 1866, retired
Tancrède Bichon, Bordeaux December 1, 1861 May 25, 1861 October 17, 1861 June 21, 1866, retired
Adonis Arman, Ajaccio 1860 January 15, 1863 July 18, 1863 March 27, 1883, retired
Amphion Arman, Ajaccio 1860 May 9, 1863 October 12, 1863 April 21, 1866, sunk

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The technical data of the nine ships were slightly different, and the data given here basically refer to the Lamotte-Picquet .
  2. ↑ 1878: La grande révolte canaque

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