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FRENCH NAVY (FRANCE)

CAPITAL SHIPS

DUQUESNE screw ships-of-the-line (1854)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Duquesne     Arsenal de Brest 4.8.1847 2.12.1853 10/1854 stricken 9.1867
Tourville     Arsenal de Brest 26.8.1847 31.10.1853 12/1854 prison hulk 5.1871

 

Displacement normal, t

4566

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

62.8 pp

Breadth, m

16.9

Draught, m

7.99

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 HSE, boilers

Power, h. p.

650nhp

Max speed, kts

Duquesne: 10.4

Fuel, t

coal 520

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

4 x 1 - 223/12 No.1 shell SBML, 4 x 1 - 223/11 No.2 shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 194/16 50pdr SBML, 26 x 1 - 165/17 30pdr No.1 SBML, 28 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No.2 SBML, 18 x 1 - 163/8 30pdr SBML carronades

Complement

814

Project history: 2nd rank two-deckers, converted to screw on the stocks since 1853. Wooden hull.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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