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    The Bouvet-class was a type of sail and steam avisos of the French Navy. Design by Vésigné and La Celle, the ships had a clipper hull, barque rigging and...
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    Bouvet was a sail and steam aviso of the French Navy, lead ship of her class. She is remembered as the opponent of the German gunboat SMS Meteor during...
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  • have borne the name Bouvet in honour of François Joseph Bouvet. Bouvet (1865), a sail and steam aviso Bouvet (1876), an aviso Bouvet, a battleship sunk...
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    single ship action between the German gunboat Meteor and the French aviso Bouvet off the coast of Havana, Cuba during the Franco-Prussian War. The battle...
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    with the Battle of Havana between the gunboat Meteor and the French aviso Bouvet. In general, due to its small size and frequent mechanical problems with...
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    Franco-Prussian War. There, she battled the French aviso Bouvet; both vessels were lightly damaged, though Bouvet was compelled to disengage after a shot from...
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    War, with the rank of capitaine de frégate, he was in command of the aviso Bouvet. On 9 November 1870, he fought the German gunboat Meteor off Havana....
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  • The Mouche No. 2-class schooner-avisos were a class of twenty-eight 1-gun dispatch or advice boats of the French Navy, all built between 1808 and 1810...
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  • escorteur ceased to be used and was replaced with that of frigate, destroyer, aviso or patroller. Royal Navy: River-class frigate (Free French Naval Forces)...
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    of Hanover. During the Franco-Prussian War, Meteor battled the French aviso Bouvet in the Battle of Havana in 1870; the other members of the class were...
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