French gunboat Le Brethon (1864)
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| Name: | Le Brethon |
| Namesake: | Lieutenant Albert Édouard Le Brethon de Caligny |
| Ordered: | 2 September 1862 |
| Builder: | Ningbo |
| Laid down: | 20 July 1863 |
| Launched: | 17 September 1864 |
| Struck: | 19 April 1869 |
| Fate: | Struck and sold for scrap on 19 April 1869 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Kenney-class gunboat |
| Displacement: | 268 tonnes |
| Length: | 35.4 metres |
| Beam: | 6.7 metres |
| Draught: | 2 metres |
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| Armour: | Timber |
The Le Brethon was Kenney-class gunboat of the French Navy. She served in the Far East, notably during the French campaign against Korea of 1866.
Started as Aigrette upon plans by engineer Verny, using a steam engine canibalised from Salve, the ship was renamed Le Brethon on 25 September 1863, after Lieutenant Albert Édouard Le Brethon de Caligny.
Le Brethon was commissioned in Shangai on 9 November 1864 and appointed to the Cochinchina Division. Decommissioned on 1 June 1865, she was reacativated on 1 March 1866 and took part in the French campaign against Korea under Huché de Cintré.
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