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CRUISERS

GALATÉE sailing corvettes (1846-1849)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Galatée     Arsenal de Brest 16.2.1844 27.12.1845 7/1846 school ship 1865
Sérieuse     Arsenal de Brest 24.3.1847 12.8.1848 1/1849 barracks hulk 2.1872
Eurydice     Arsenal de Cherbourg 26.9.1846 23.5.1849 9/1849 transport 8.1863

 

Displacement normal, t

1179

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

44.3 pp

Breadth, m

12.1

Draught, m

5.26

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

 

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

Galatée: 2 x 1 - 223/11 No.2 shell SBML, 26 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML

Sérieuse: 2 x 1 - 165/17 30pdr No.1 SBML, 2 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No.2 SBML, 22 x 1 - 163/13 shell  SBML

Complement

254

Project history: 30-gun spardecked corvettes.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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