- Ships in class
- Sources and references
{{Infobox ship image| Ship image=Sphinx-IMG 6945.jpg | Ship caption=1/100th Model of the French paddle steamer corvette Sphinx. Made by the model workshop of the Musée de la Marine in 1962, on display at Toulon naval museum.
}}{{Infobox ship class overview | Name=Sphinx | Builders=Rochefort | FRA}} | Class before= | Class after= | Subclasses= | Cost= | Built range= | In service range= | In commission range= | Total ships building= | Total ships planned= | Total ships completed=6 | Total ships cancelled= | Total ships active= | Total ships laid up= | Total ships lost= | Total ships retired= | Total ships preserved=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship class=Sphinx class aviso | Ship displacement=913 tonnes | 48.20|m|ft}} | 8.16|m|ft}} Including paddles: {{convert|14|m|ft}} | 3.00|m|ft}} | Ship propulsion=*Sail plan- 640 HP Newcomen steam engine
| Ship speed=7 knots[1] | Ship range= | Ship endurance= | Ship test depth= | Ship boats= | Ship capacity= | Ship complement= | Ship time to activate= | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship armament=*6 to 11 guns- 6 24-pounder carronades
- 2 to 4 160 mm howitzers
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}} | The Sphinx class was the first type of steamer corvettes in service in the French Navy. They were motorised by French-made steam engines cloned from a low-pressure Newcomen steam engine purchased from Fawcett, in Liverpool, and made at Indret.[2] Initially classified as "paddle corvettes", they were later reclassified as "first-class avisos". Ships in class Builder: Rochefort Ordered: Laid down: Launched: Completed: Fate: Wrecked Builder: Ordered: Laid down: Launched: Completed: Fate: Builder: Ordered: Laid down: Launched: Completed: Fate: Sources and references 1. ^Corvette a Vapeur le Sphinx, de 160 chevaux {{webarchive|url=https://archive.is/20120714014831/http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/fishimages&CISOPTR=47794 |date=2012-07-14 }}, lib.washington.edu
2. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=yagbAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA594 Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences, Volume 6]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120427204409/http://dossiersmarine.free.fr/fs_av_AV4a.html]
- {{cite book |first=Jean-Michel |last=Roche |year=2005 |chapter= |title=Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671 - 1870 |isbn=978-2-9525917-0-6 |oclc=165892922 |pages=422 |publisher=Group Retozel-Maury Millau}}
1 : Sphinx-class avisos |