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SÉMIRAMIS screw frigate (1862)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Sémiramis     Arsenal de Rochefort 6.7.1829 8.8.1861 6/1862 stricken 5.1877

 

Displacement normal, t

3830

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

77.3 pp

Breadth, m

14.5

Draught, m

6.98

No of shafts

1

Machinery

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

Power, h. p.

1664

Max speed, kts

12.1

Fuel, t

coal 500

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 1859. Wooden hull.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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