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FRENCH NAVY (FRANCE)

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RENARD screw sloop (1867)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Renard     Bordeaux 1864 1/1866 1867 wrecked 6.1885

 

Displacement normal, t

800

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

68.5 wl

Breadth, m

8.38

Draught, m

4.47 max

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 HC, oval boilers

Power, h. p.

550

Max speed, kts

11.5

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

3 x 1 small guns

Complement

88

Project history: Of finer lines than other French sloops. the Renard was wooden-hulled with a long plough bow. She was rigged as a barquentine and her funnel and masts were raked.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Renard was wrecked off Aden in June 1885.

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