Haitian gunboat Crête-à-Pierrot

History
Haiti
NameCrête-à-Pierrot
NamesakeBattle of Crête-à-Pierrot
BuilderEarle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co, Hull (Yard 396)
Launched7 November 1895
Commissioned1896
Out of service1902
FateDestroyed to prevent capture
General characteristics
TypeGunboat
Displacement950 tons
Length209 ft (64 m)
Installed powerTriple expansion steam engines
Propulsion1 × propeller
Speed16 knots (30 km/h)
Complement175
Armament

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.