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CAPITAL SHIPS

MASSÉNA screw ships-of-the-line (1861)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Masséna     Arsenal de Toulon 9/1835 15.3.1860 11/1861 transport 7.1866
Castiglione     Arsenal de Toulon 10/1835 4.7.1860 1861 transport 12.1866

 

Displacement normal, t

5137

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

74.0 pp

Breadth, m

16.3

Draught, m

8.15

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 HSE, boilers

Power, h. p.

Masséna: 2189

Castiglione: 2259

Max speed, kts

Masséna: 11.5

Castiglione: 11.8

Fuel, t

coal 550

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

Masséna: 16 x 1 - 165/17 M1858 MLR, 18 x 1 - 165/17 30pdr No.1 SBML, 34 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No.2 SBML, 2 x 1 - 165/14 MLR, 20 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML

Castiglione: 16 x 1 - 223/12 No.1 shell SBML, 18 x 1 - 165/17 30pdr No.1 SBML, 34 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No.2 SBML, 2 x 1 - 165/14 MLR, 20 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML

Complement

913

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

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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