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FRENCH NAVY (FRANCE)

CAPITAL SHIPS

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

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Fleurus     Arsenal de Toulon 4/1825 2.12.1853 10/1854 HQ ship 9.1867
Navarin     Arsenal de Toulon 5/1832 26.7.1854 11/1854 sail transport 1874

 

Displacement normal, t

Fleurus: 4509

Navarin: 4562

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

62.5 pp

Breadth, m

Fleurus: 17.0

Navarin: 16.9

Draught, m

Fleurus: 7.80 mean

Navarin: 8.23

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 HSE, boilers

Power, h. p.

650nhp

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

8 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, 28 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No.2 SBML, 22 x 1 - 165/14 30pdr No.3 SBML, 2 x 1 - 165/14 MLR

Complement

883

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

Modernizations: 5.1867, Fleurus: engine was removed.

Naval service: Fleurus collided 6.9.1862 near Gibaltar 6.9.1862 with transport Charente. Her engines condemned 21.5.1867 and she was reclassified as sailing.

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