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FRENCH NAVY (FRANCE)

CAPITAL SHIPS

DUQUESNE sailing ships-of-the-line

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Duquesne     Arsenal de Brest 4.8.1847 --- --- built as screw since 1853
Tourville     Arsenal de Brest 26.8.1847 --- --- built as screw since 1853

 

Displacement normal, t

3750

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

60.4 pp

Breadth, m

16.2

Draught, m

7.23 mean

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

 

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

4 x 1 - 223/12 No.1 shell SBML, 26 x 1 - 165/17 30pdr No.1 SBML, 32 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No.2 SBML, 4 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML, 24 x 1 - 163/8 30pdr SBML carronades

Complement

811

Project history: 90-gun two-deckers left incomplete as sailing ships.

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