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BELLONE screw frigate (1859)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Bellone     Arsenal de Cherbourg 26.8.1845 26.3.1853 // 11.8.1858 8/1859 stricken 2.1877

 

Displacement normal, t

2328

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

56.5 pp

Breadth, m

14.4

Draught, m

6.74

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 HSE, boilers

Power, h. p.

939

Max speed, kts

9.8

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

4 x 1 - 223/11 No.2 shell SBML, 26 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No. 2 SBML, 2 x 1 - 165/14 MLR, 8 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML

Complement

388

Project history: 2nd rank frigate, converted to screw after launch since 1857 and relaunched in 1858. Wooden hull.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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