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PALLAS screw frigate (1861)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Pallas     Arsenal de Lorient-Caudan 3.6.1848 15.8.1860 8/1861 stricken 10.1883

 

Displacement normal, t

3618

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

77.8 pp

Breadth, m

14.6

Draught, m

6.86

No of shafts

1

Machinery

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

Power, h. p.

1427

Max speed, kts

11.7

Fuel, t

coal 420

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

34 x 1 - 165/17 M1858 MLR

Complement

466

Project history: 1st rank frigate, converted to screw on the stocks since 1858. Wooden hull.

Modernizations: 1878: + 4 x 1 Hotchkiss MG, 2 towed torpedoes, 2 torpedo launches

Naval service: No significant events.

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