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AUSTERLITZ screw ship-of-the-line (1853)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Austerlitz     Arsenal de Cherbourg 17.4.1832 15.9.1852 10/1853 prison ship 5.1871-3/1872, stricken 7.1872

 

Displacement normal, t

4467

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

70.6 pp

Breadth, m

16.8

Draught, m

7.67

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 HSE direct action, boilers

Power, h. p.

500nhp

Max speed, kts

10.2

Fuel, t

coal 378

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

4 x 1 - 223/12 No.1 shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 223/11 No.2 shell SBML, 34 x 1 - 165/17 30pdr No.1 SBML, 30 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No.2 SBML, 16 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML

Complement

883

Project history: 2nd rank two-decker, converted to screw on the stocks since 1850. Wooden hull.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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