Haitian gunboat Crête-à-Pierrot
| History | |
|---|---|
| Haiti | |
| Name | Crête-à-Pierrot |
| Namesake | Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot |
| Builder | Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co, Hull (Yard 396) |
| Launched | 7 November 1895 |
| Commissioned | 1896 |
| Out of service | 1902 |
| Fate | Destroyed to prevent capture |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Gunboat |
| Displacement | 950 tons |
| Length | 209 ft (64 m) |
| Installed power | Triple expansion steam engines |
| Propulsion | 1 × propeller |
| Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h) |
| Complement | 175 |
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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.