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ARMORIQUE screw frigate (1863)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Armorique     Arsenal de Lorient - Caudan 19.4.1850 1.3.1862 4/1863 stricken 11.1884

 

Displacement normal, t

2890

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

77.0 pp

Breadth, m

13.5

Draught, m

6.25

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 2-cyl HSE, trunk, boilers

Power, h. p.

1175

Max speed, kts

10.4

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

14 x 1 - 165/17 30pdr No. 1 SBML, 8 x 1 - 165/14 MLR

Complement

345

Project history: 3rd rank sailing frigate, ordered for conversion to the screw in 1858 and lengthened on the slipways by 28m. Between January 1862 and January 1872 she was rated as spardecked corvette. Wooden hull.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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