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ROLAND screw corvette (1851)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Roland, 4.1852- Hortense, 4.1852- Reine Hortense, 6.1853- Roland     Arsenal de Toulon 6.8.1845 5.9.1850 1/1851 stricken 5.1870

 

Displacement normal, t

1299

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

54.7 pp

Breadth, m

10.4

Draught, m

5.03

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 4-cyl HSE geared, boilers

Power, h. p.

988

Max speed, kts

12.2

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 165/17 30pdr No.1 SBML, 4 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML

Complement

191

Project history: 1st class corvette, wooden hull.

Modernizations: 1853: - 2 x 1 - 165/17; + 6 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML

Naval service: No significant events.

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