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D'ASSAS screw corvette (1854)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
D'Assas     Arsenal de Lorient - Caudan 2.1.1852 27.4.1854 11/1854 stricken 6.1878

 

Displacement normal, t

1945

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

63.7 pp

Breadth, m

11.0

Draught, m

4.84 mean

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 4-cyl HSE, boilers

Power, h. p.

400nhp

Max speed, kts

9.8

Fuel, t

coal 378

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 223/11 No.2 shell SBML, 14 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No.2 SBML

Complement

251

Project history: 1st class corvette, wooden hull. Reclassified as screw covered battery corvette in 1856, screw 3rd rank frigate in 1859 and screw covered battery corvette in 1862.

Modernizations: 1862: re-engined with 1 2-cyl HSE (1201hp, 9.4kts)

Naval service: No significant events.

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