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BAYONNAISE sailing corvettes (1847-1849)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Bayonnaise     Arsenal de Cherbourg 31.7.1844 7.9.1846 2/1847 stricken 11.1869
Capricieuse     Arsenal de Toulon 10/1847 5.7.1849 9/1849 condemned 3.1865

 

Displacement normal, t

1117

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

43.9 pp

Breadth, m

11.8

Draught, m

4.95 mean

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

 

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

Bayonnaise: 2 x 1 - 223/11 shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No.2 SBML, 24 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML

Capricieuse: 4 x 1 - 165/17 30pdr No.1 SBML, 22 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML

Complement

229

Project history: 30-gun spardecked corvettes.

Modernizations: 1850s, Capricieuse: - 2 x 1 - 165/17; + 2 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML

Naval service: No significant events.

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