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RÉSOLUE screw frigate (1872)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Résolue     Arsenal de Cherbourg 22.10.1846 18.6.1863 2.10.1872 sail transport 1.1878, seagoing TS 9.1878, sail frigate 1.1879, TS 9.1883, stricken 12.1890

 

Displacement normal, t

1871

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

49.8 pp

Breadth, m

13.4

Draught, m

6.71

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 2-cyl HSE, oval boilers

Power, h. p.

697

Max speed, kts

9.6

Fuel, t

coal 145

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

12 x 1 - 165/17 M1858-60 MLR, 4 x 1 - 139/17 No.2 M1867 MLR

Complement

299

Project history: Incomplete 3rd rank sailing frigate, conversion to the screw began in 1869 after launch. Wooden hull.

Modernizations: 10.1877: engine was removed

Naval service: No significant events.

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