French aviso Bouvet (1865)

Bouvet in 1876
History
France
Name	Bouvet
Namesake	François Joseph Bouvet.
Builder	Rochefort
Laid down	2 October 1863
Launched	24 May 1865
Fate	Wrecked on 17 September 1871 off Île-à-Vache
General characteristics
Class and type	Bouvet class aviso
Displacement	760 tonnes
Length	55.75 m (182.9 ft)
Beam	8.5 m (28 ft)
Propulsion	700 shp (520 kW)
Complement	85
Armament	1 × 16cm gun 2 × 12cm gun

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 the Battle of Havana in 1870, at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War.