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FRENCH NAVY (FRANCE)

CRUISERS

CIRCÉ screw frigates (1862-1869)

Flore 1880

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Circé     Arsenal de Rochefort 24.4.1847 15.10.1860 11/1862 stricken 7.1872
Flore     Arsenal de Rochefort 26.7.1847 27.2.1869 12/1869 seagoing TS 6.1876, stricken 10.1886

 

Displacement normal, t

3136

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

Circé: 75.8

Flore: 76.1

Breadth, m

13.8

Draught, m

6.20 mean

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 2-cyl HSE trunk, boilers

Power, h. p.

Flore: 1465

Max speed, kts

Flore: 12.5

Fuel, t

coal 377

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

Circé: 16 x 1 - 165/17 30pdr No.1 SBML, 14 x 1 - 165/14 MLR

Flore: 16 x 1 - 165/18 M1864-68 BLR

Complement

415

Project history: 2nd rank frigates, converted to screw on the stocks since 1858 (Circé) and 1860 (Flore). Wooden hull.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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