Built as an iron screw transport at Lorient for the French Navy.
1863 Laid down.
25 April 1866 launched under the name L’ISÉRE.
Tonnage 1,967 tons, dim. 62.2 x 9.43 x 4.06m. (draught).
Powered by a 3-cyl compound steam engine 518 ihp., one shaft, speed 7 knots.
Rigged as a three masted barque, sail area 682m².
When built an armament of 4 – 140mm guns, in 1880; 2 – 140mm guns.
Crew 5 officers and 64 men.
June 1868 commissioned.
Used as a transport by the French navy in the Mediterranean and Atlantic.
1884 Made a voyage to Tonkin.
She carried the Statue of Liberty in 1885 in 224 crates from France to the USA.
Loading commenced on 04 May 1885 and she sailed from Rouen on 21 May 1885.
Made a call at Horta on Fayal, Azores from 02 June to 4 June arrived at Sandy Hook 17 June. Dropt anchor on 17 June off Bledsoe Island.
Commencing discharging on 22 June and after three days discharging was it completed.
03 July sailed from New York and arrived 21 July 1885 in Brest.
1904 Decommissioned and repaired, the engine and boilers removed and replaced by a new steam engine of 800 hp., refitted with new boilers.
1908 Recommissioned.
1911 Out of service, due to high repairs bills.
22 March 1911 stricken from the Navy List.
1927 Hull still used as a pontoon.
1928 scrapped.
From Watercraft Philately 1986 page 18: Cristian Gaden of Bordeaux gives that in Neptunia, 1976 (magazine of Friends Association of Musée de la Marine) showing L’ISÉRE as a pontoon at Lorient in 1936 with the submarine L’IRIS alongside, and as a barrack-ship for German submarine crews with a German submarine alongside during World War II.
St Kitts 1986 $1.50 sg217, scott663
Source: MARHST-L Andreas von Mach. Navicula.
L'ISERE
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