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CATON screw corvette (1847)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Caton     Arsenal de Toulon 20.6.1844 1.5.1847 12/1847 stricken 1.1874

 

Displacement normal, t

892

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

57.0 pp

Breadth, m

9.37

Draught, m

3.97

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 2-cyl HSE oscillating geared, boilers

Power, h. p.

260nhp

Max speed, kts

10.3

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

8 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML

Complement

123

Project history: 2nd class corvette, iron hull. Brig-rigged.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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