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CHARLEMAGNE screw ship-of-the-line (1851)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Charlemagne     Arsenal de Toulon 4/1834 16.1.1851 12/1851 steam transport 1868

 

Displacement normal, t

4124

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

60.1 pp

Breadth, m

16.2

Draught, m

7.90

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 4-cyl HSE direct action, boilers

Power, h. p.

1206

Max speed, kts

9.5

Fuel, t

coal 260

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

6 x 1 - 223/12 No.1 shell SBML, 6 x 1 - 223/11 No.2 shell SBML, 24 x 1 - 165/17 30pdr No.1 SBML, 26 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No.2 SBML, 18 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML

Complement

814

Project history: 3rd rank two-decker, converted to screw on the stocks since 1850. Can make 11kts under sail. Wooden hull.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Charlemagne was damaged by a shell explosion in the engine room 17.10.1854.

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