Haitian gunboat Crête-à-Pierrot
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"Crête-à-Pierrot" redirects here. For the battle of 1802, see Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot.
Crête-à-Pierrot was a gunboat in the Haitian Navy named after the 1802 Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot in the Haitian Revolution (1791 – 1804). The boat was destroyed by Admiral Hammerton Killick in 1902 to prevent it falling into the hands of a German warship.
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Haiti | |
Name | Crête-à-Pierrot |
Builder | Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co, Hull (Yard 396) |
Launched | 7 November 1895 |
Commissioned | 1896 |
Out of service | 1902 |
Fate | Destroyed to prevent capture |
General characteristics | |
Type | Gunboat |
Displacement | 950 tons |
Length | 209 ft (64 m) |
Installed power | Triple expansion steam engines |
Propulsion | 1 × propeller |
Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h) |
Complement | 175 |
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