Agile Class Torpedo Boats Class Overview

Dimensions, machinery and performance

Length:
143' (WL) (a)
Engines:
1 triple expansion by Cail
Beam:
14' 11"
Boilers:
(b)
Draft:
3' 7"
Shafts:
1
Displacement:
102 (std.) 119 (full)
HP:
1,100
Speed:
20 knots
Crew:
N/A
Range:
3,000 NM @ 10.5 knots
Notes
(a):
 Sarrazin and Tourbillon 145' (WL).
(b):
 Agile and Audacieux= 1 locomotive boiler, Eclaire, Kabyle and Orage= 2 Thornycroft boilers,
Sarrazin and Tourbillon= 2 Babillot boilers, but theu were replaced before completion with
Guyot de Temple boilers.

Agile and Audacieux had one funnel, all others carried two funnels due to the second boiler.


Armament As Built
Number Carried
Type
Arrangement
Notes
3
14" torpedo launchers
Single launchers
Agile, Audacieux and Eclaire only
3
15" torpedo tubes
1 bow tube
2 single launchers
All others
3
37mm Revolving Cannons
Single mounts
Hotchkiss


Name
Builder
Launched
Completed
Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée
La Seyne, France
July 4, 1889
1889
Fate
Scrapped after 1912.
Name
Builder
Launched
Completed
Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée
La Seyne, France
May 8, 1889
1889
Fate
Sunk July 10, 1886 in collision with torpedo boat Chevalier.

Location: Mediterranean Sea, off Ajaccio, France (Corsica).

No casualties.
Name
Builder
Launched
Completed
Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée
La Seyne, France
August 29, 1891
1891
Fate
Scrapped after 1911.
Name
Builder
Launched
Completed
Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée
La Seyne, France
Nov. 1891
1892
Fate
Scrapped after 1911.
Name
Builder
Launched
Completed
Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée
La Seyne, France
October 15, 1891
1892
Fate
Scrapped after 1921.
Name
Builder
Launched
Completed
Sarrazin
Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde
Bordeaux, France
June 25, 1892
1894
Fate
Scrapped after 1908.
Name
Builder
Launched
Completed
Tourbillon
Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde
Bordeaux, France
October 10, 1892
1894
Fate
Scrapped after 1911


Page published Apr. 20, 2019