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Large sail schooners (6 guns)

IRIS class large schooners (launched 1818-44)


IRIS class large sail schooners (6 guns)

Displacement:	157t
Dimensions:	81ft 0in wl, 82ft 7in deck x 21ft 0in mld, 21ft 0in ext x 8ft 8in mean, 9ft 9in max.
Same, meters:	24.68, 25.18 x 6.39, 6.41 x 2.65, 2.98m
Armament:	6-18p
Complement:	61

Name	Builder	Launched	Fate
IRIS	Rochefort	6.4.18	Stk. 1844
BEARNAISE	Bayonne	17.5.20	Stk. 1837
HIRONDELLE	Bayonne	31.5.20	Stk. 1837
LYONNAISE	Bayonne	31.5.21	Stk. 21.3.38
PROVENCALE	Bayonne	14.6.21	Stk. 1827
PHILOMELE	Bayonne	2.8.22	Stk. 31.12.34
GLORIOLE	Bayonne	2.8.22	Lost 1823
DAUPHINOISE	Bayonne	25.6.23	Stk. 1838
ARTESIENNE	Bayonne	25.6.23	Stk. 1836
TOULONNAISE	Toulon	4.23	Stk. 18.12.43
MESANGE	Toulon	7.23	Stk. 17.7.51
FAUVETTE	Bayonne	13.3.24	Stk. 1836
TURQUOISE	Bayonne	16.3.24	Stk. 1831
DAPHNE	Lorient	9.8.24	Stk. 1833
DAPHNE	Lorient	17.3.36	Stk. 1843
LEVRETTE	Lorient	21.3.36	Stk. 1846
FINE	St.Servain	26.8.36	Stk. 6.3.50
DORIS	St.Servain	26.8.36	Stk. 1845
ESTAFETTE	Brest	23.7.42	Stk. 22.7.56
GAZELLE	Brest	31.10.42	Stk. 3.10.55
HIRONDELLE	Toulon	9.9.43	Stk. 26.10.65
TOPAZE	Toulon	29.6.44	Stk. 20.4.57

This class was designed by Hubert. Its sail area was 785 sq.yd. and its height of battery 3ft 7in. The plans were reused for the four ships ordered at Lorient and St.Servain in 1835 because the ministry had had consistently good reports on the Iris type. (One of these also reused the name of an earlier ship, Daphné.) The four ships built in 1842-4 were repeats of Toulonnaise. The only six-gun schooners built by the navy between 1816-52 which were probably not of this type were Amarante (Lorient, 25.8.17, stk. 1833) and Sauterelle (Brest, 28.7.17, lost 1819).