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COMTE D'EU screw corvette (1847)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Comte d'Eu, 2.1848- Patriote, 6.1853- Reine Hortense, 2.1867- Cassard     Augustin Normand, Le Havre 9/1844 20.12.1846 8/1847 stricken 4.1882

 

Displacement normal, t

919

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

64.5 pp

Breadth, m

11.0

Draught, m

4.23 mean

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 4-cyl HSE oscillating geared, boilers

Power, h. p.

320nhp

Max speed, kts

11.3

Fuel, t

coal 120

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

6 x 1 - 121/7 No.2 bronze shell SBML

Complement

191

Project history: 1st class corvette, iron hull. Was built as a yachts for King Louis Philippe.

Modernizations: 1867, was armed with: 3 x 1 - 140/18 MLR

Naval service: No significant events.

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