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BRETAGNE screw ship-of-the-line (1856)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Bretagne     Arsenal de Brest 1/1853 17.2.1855 6/1856 stricken 7.1866

 

Displacement normal, t

6874

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

81.0 pp

Breadth, m

18.1

Draught, m

9.03

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 4-cyl HSE, 8 boilers

Power, h. p.

3327

Max speed, kts

12.8

Fuel, t

coal 590

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

18 x 1 - 223/12 No.1 shell SBML, 18 x 1 - 223/11 No.2 shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 194/16 50pdr SBML, 18 x 1 - 175/16 36pdr SBML, 18 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No.2 SBML, 38 x 1 - 165/14 30pdr No.3 SBML, 18 x 1 - 163/8 30pdr SBML carronades

Complement

1170

Project history: 130-gun three-decker, laid down instead of the sailing ship with the same name using the timber prepared for her. Ship was overloaded as built, lower battery was only 1.45 higher than wl instead of planned 1.76m. Seagoing qualities were also very poor.  Wooden hull.

Modernizations: 1865: machinery was removed.

Naval service: No significant events.

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