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MAGICIENNE screw frigates (1862)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Magicienne     Arsenal de Toulon 26.6.1845 26.12.1861 9/1862 stricken 4.1886
Thémis     Arsenal de Toulon 4/1847 29.4.1862 12/1862 stricken 11.1882

 

Displacement normal, t

3408

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

75.7 pp

Breadth, m

14.4

Draught, m

6.38 mean

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 2-cyl HSE, boilers

Power, h. p.

Magicienne: 1402

Thémis: 1611

Max speed, kts

Magicienne: 10.3

Thémis: 11

Fuel, t

coal 450

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

Magicienne: 28 x 1 - 165/17 M1858 MLR

Thémis: 28 x 1 - 165/14 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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