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FRENCH NAVY (FRANCE)

CAPITAL SHIPS

PRINCE JÉRÔME screw ships-of-the-line (1854-1855)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Prince Jérôme (ex-Annibal), 9.1870- Hoche     Arsenal de Lorient 17.9.1827 2.12.1853 10/1854 stricken 6.1872
Wagram     Arsenal de Lorient 23.2.1833 12.6.1854 1/1855 service craft early 1867

 

Displacement normal, t

4505

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

62.9 pp

Breadth, m

17.0

Draught, m

8.04

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 HSE, boilers

Power, h. p.

650nhp

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

coal 548

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

4 x 1 - 223/12 No.1 shell SBML, 4 x 1 - 223/11 No.2 shell SBML, 32 x 1 - 165/17 30pdr No.1 SBML, 28 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No.2 SBML, 14 x 1 - 165/13 30pdr No.4 SBML

Complement

883

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

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Prince Jérôme was damaged by fire off Gibraltar during trooping voyage to Mexico 6.9.1862 and decommissioned 1.1.1863.

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