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CASSARD screw corvette (1866)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Jérôme Napoléon (ex-Cassard), 9.1870- Desaix     Augustin Normand, Le Havre 1.1.1862 20.2.1866 1.9.1866 school aviso 1891, stricken 8.1894

 

Displacement normal, t

1684

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

79.6 wl

Breadth, m

10.6

Draught, m

5.47

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 3-cyl HC, 4 oval boilers

Power, h. p.

1800

Max speed, kts

14.2

Fuel, t

coal 304

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

4 x 1 - 122/15 MLR

Complement

159

Project history: Wooden hull. Used also as a yacht in 1866-1870 and was two-mast schooner-rigged.

Modernizations: 1870: + 3 x 1 - 122/15 MLR

late 1870s: - 7 x 1 - 122/15; + 4 x 1 - 90/36 M1870, 4 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss, 2 - 356 TT (aw)

Naval service: No significant events.

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