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DUPLEIX screw corvette (1862)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Dupleix     Arsenal de Cherbourg 9.10.1856 28.3.1861 26.2.1862 fishery protection 1876-1886, stricken 7.1887

 

Displacement normal, t

1773

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

66.3 pp

Breadth, m

11.4

Draught, m

5.61

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 2-cyl HSE, trunk, oval boilers

Power, h. p.

986

Max speed, kts

11.7

Fuel, t

coal 340

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

10 x 1 - 165/17 M1860 MLR

Complement

191

Project history: Wooden hull. Barque-rugged.

Modernizations: 1870s: - 10 x 1 - 165/17; + 12 x 1 - 139/21 M1870/M

Naval service: No significant events.

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