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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