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DILIGENTE sailing corvettes (1801-1830)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Diligente     Arsenal de Brest 20.6.1800 7.11.1801 12/1801 condemned 10.1854
Coquette     Bayonne 22.3.1809 21.11.1809 4/1810 condemned 2.1822
Friponne     Bayonne 22.3.1809 4.5.1810 1811 condemned 6.1820
Écho (ex-Favorite)     Arsenal de Lorient 12/1809 3.7.1810 12/1810 stricken 7.1844
Badine     Lübeck 12/1811 --- --- abandoned incomplete 12.1813
Coquille     Lübeck 12/1811 --- --- abandoned incomplete 12.1813
Isis     Arsenal de Cherbourg 8.7.1822 14.4.1823 6/1826 stricken 1.1833
Sylphide     Arsenal de Lorient 21.3.1822 12.5.1823 6/1823 wrecked 23.2.1829
Bayonnaise     Arsenal de Cherbourg 12.3.1824 2.6.1825 11/1825 stricken 6.1835
Cornélie     Arsenal de Cherbourg 12.3.1824 2.6.1825 1/1826 stricken 11.1846
Cérès     Arsenal de Cherbourg 15.6.1825 7.6.1826 12/1827 stricken 10.1840
Églé     Arsenal de Cherbourg 15.6.1825 7.6.1826 2/1828 stricken 11.1843
Orythie     Arsenal de Lorient 29.9.1825 14.3.1827 12/1827 stricken 11.1843
Perle     Bayonne 11/1826 1.7.1829 3/1830 stricken 3.1856

 

Displacement normal, t

completed 1801-1811: 476

completed later: 422

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

33.8 pp

Breadth, m

8.45

Draught, m

completed 1801-1811: 4.66

completed later: 4.55

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

 

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

Diligente: 6 x 1 - 118/8 12pdr SBML carronades (British), 14 x 1 - 93/24 6pdr SBML

Coquette, Friponne, Écho: 20 x 1 - 93/24 6pdr SBML

others: 16 x 1 - 138/8 18pdr SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 107/24 8pdr SBML

Complement

completed 1801-1811: 141 wartime

completed later: 110

Project history: 20-gun corvettes, prototype became a very fast ship, making 12-13kts. In 1821 Diligente was reclassified as corvette-aviso, Écho in 1826. Niobé was cancelled in 1825.

Modernizations: 1818, Écho: was armed with 18 x 1 - 151/8 24pdr SBML carronades, 2 x 1 -93/24 6pdr SBML.

1821, Diligente: was armed with 18 x 1 - 138/8 18pdr SBML carronades or (16 x 1 - 138/8 18pdr SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 121/20 12pdr SBML).

1822, Écho: - 18 x 1 - 151/8; + 18 x 1 - 138/8 18pdr SBML carronades.

Naval service: Sylphide wrecked 23.2.1829 at Haiti.

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