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HERMIONE screw frigates (1860-1861)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Hermione     Arsenal de Brest 10.5.1847 15.8.1860 12/1860 transport 1868
Junon     Arsenal de Brest 27.4.1847 28.1.1861 4/1861 stricken 3.1872

 

Displacement normal, t

3550

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

78.8 pp

Breadth, m

13.9

Draught, m

7.28

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 2-cyl HSE return connecting rod, boilers

Power, h. p.

600nhp

Max speed, kts

Hermione: 12.3

Junon: 11.6

Fuel, t

coal 500

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

28 x 1 - 165/17 M1858 MLR

Complement

415

Project history: 2nd rank frigates, converted to screw on the stocks since 1859. Wooden hull.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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