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SOMME sailing corvettes (1841-1845/1845)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Somme     Arsenal de Cherbourg 23.4.1839 29.8.1840 8/1841 // 1845 stricken 11.1850
Rhin     Arsenal de Rochefort 15.4.1840 21.5.1841 9/1841 // 1845 transport 1849/51, stricken 12.1854
Meurthe     Arsenal de Lorient 12.5.1840 2.11.1842 1/1843 // 1845 transport 1849/51, stricken 9.1852
Seine     Arsenal de Rochefort 26.5.1842 21.2.1845 3/1845 // 1845 wrecked 4.7.1846

 

Displacement normal, t

1347

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

44.1 pp

Breadth, m

10.7

Draught, m

5.35

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

 

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

Somme, Rhin, Meurthe: 4 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML, 18 x 1 - 151/8 24pdr SBML carronades

Seine: 22 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML, 4 x 1 - 106/24 SBML

Complement

 

Project history: 800t flutes or corvettes de charge of Meuse class, reclassified in 1845 as 24gun quarterdecked corvettes.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Seine wrecked 4.7.1846 in the port of Balade, New Caledonia.

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