Torpedo Boats

[Brian James]

French Torpedo Boats pictured at Dunkirk in 1911.

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Marine Nationale Type 38 Torpedo Boats 321 and 315 pictured on the Seine in 1922.

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Bombe Class Torpedo Gunboat Dragonne pictured at Monte Carlo c1885.

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French Torpedo Boats pictured at Villefranche c1893..From the left, Agile Class, Kabyle....Avant Garde Class Dragon and Levrier Class Leger.

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Ouragan Class Torpedo Boat Destroyer pictured at Lorient in the 1880s.

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Lead Ship, Torpedo Boat Mistral pictured at Cherbourg c1902...The Class was really a modified Cyclone Class Torpedo Boat, with splinter armour. The Normand ship builders had urged the Navy to accept armoured Torpedo Boats over the previous 10 years but this ended up to be the only Class so equipped. Mistral was renamed Boree in 1925. (with her name being transferred for use of a new Destroyer Class), she was sold for breaking in 1928.