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DU CHAYLA screw corvette (1856)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Du Chayla (ex-Volta)     Arsenal de Lorient 2.1.1852 19.3.1855 5/1856 stricken 11.1875

 

Displacement normal, t

1846

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

63.5 pp

Breadth, m

11.1

Draught, m

5.41

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 4-cyl HSE, boilers

Power, h. p.

979

Max speed, kts

10.4

Fuel, t

coal 360

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: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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