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GORGONE paddle corvette (1851)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Gorgone     Chaigneau & Bichon, Bordeaux-Lormont 1.10.1846 14.8.1848 1/1851 wrecked 19.12.1869

 

Displacement normal, t

990

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

63.8 pp

Breadth, m

9.52

Draught, m

3.22 mean

No of shafts

side wheels

Machinery

sails + 1 2-cyl SE oscillating, 4 tubular boilers

Power, h. p.

300nhp

Max speed, kts

8

Fuel, t

coal 175

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

4 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML

Complement

128

Project history: 300nhp 2nd class paddle corvette, iron hull.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Gorgone wrecked 19.12.1869 on the Black Rocks at Brest.

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