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JEAN BART screw ship-of-the-line (1853)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Jean Bart     Arsenal de Lorient 26.1.1849 14.9.1852 4/1853 TS 10.1864

 

Displacement normal, t

4070

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

63.6 pp

Breadth, m

16.3

Draught, m

8.05

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 4-cyl HSE direct action, boilers

Power, h. p.

1010

Max speed, kts

10

Fuel, t

coal 380

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

4 x 1 - 223/12 No.1 shell SBML, 4 x 1 - 223/11 No.2 shell SBML, 30 x 1 - 165/17 30pdr No.1 SBML, 26 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No.2 SBML, 12 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML

Complement

814

Project history: 3rd rank two-decker, converted to screw on the stocks since 1850. Wooden hull.

Modernizations: 1862: re-engined.

Naval service: No significant events.

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