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FRENCH NAVY (FRANCE)

CRUISERS

ARTÉMISE sailing corvettes (1847-1849)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Artémise     Arsenal de Lorient 21.8.1844 19.11.1846 3/1847 condemned 12.1868
Thisbé     Arsenal de Lorient 24.3.1847 9.1.1849 3/1849 hospital and floating storage 9.1864

 

Displacement normal, t

1134

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

45.2 pp

Breadth, m

12.1

Draught, m

4.81 mean

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

 

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

Thisbé: 2 x 1 - 223/11 shell SBML, 22 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML, 6 x 1 - 138/8 18pdr SBML carronades

Complement

254

Project history: 30-gun spardecked corvettes.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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