French ironclad gunboat Styx

NameStyx

Ordered5 August 1882

BuilderArsenal de Cherbourg

Laid downSeptember 1889

History
France
Name	Styx
Ordered	5 August 1882
Builder	Arsenal de Cherbourg
Laid down	September 1889
Launched	22 August 1891
Completed	March 1893
Stricken	30 October 1919
Fate	Sold for scrap, 19 December 1919
General characteristics (as built)
Class & type	Phlégéton-class ironclad gunboat
Displacement	1,796 t (1,768 long tons)
Length	59.2 m (194 ft 3 in) (o/a)
Beam	12.3 m (40 ft 4 in)
Draft	3.8 m (12 ft 6 in)
Installed power	4 locomotive boilers 1,700 ihp (1,300 kW)
Propulsion	2 propellers, 2 compound-expansion steam engines
Speed	13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Range	1,800 nmi (3,300 km; 2,100 mi) at 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)
Complement	99
Armament	1 × single 274 mm (10.8 in) gun 1 × single 138.6 mm (5.5 in) gun 2 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) guns 3 × 5-barrel 37 mm (1.5 in) revolver cannon 2 × single 37 mm (1.5 in) guns
Armor	Waterline belt: 200 mm (7.9 in) Turret: 200 mm (7.9 in) Barbette: 200 mm (7.9 in) Deck (ship): 20 mm (0.8 in)

Styx was one of two Phlégéton-class ironclad gunboats built for the French Navy during the 1880s. Completed in 1893, she was transferred to Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), French Indochina, shortly afterward. The ship was sold for scrap in 1919.