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AIGLE paddle corvette (1859)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Aigle, 5.1873- Rapide     Arsenal de Cherbourg 18.12.1857 23.12.1858 9/1859 stricken 1.1891

 

Displacement normal, t

2047

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

83.0 pp

Breadth, m

10.5

Draught, m

4.67

No of shafts

side wheels

Machinery

sails + 1 SE, 6 boilers

Power, h. p.

1927

Max speed, kts

14.2

Fuel, t

coal 270

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 121/11 bronze shell SBML

Complement

180

Project history: Imperial yacht, classed also as paddle corvette, since 1870 as paddle corvette only.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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