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 |
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Length, m |
44.1 pp |
Breadth, m |
10.7 |
Draught, m |
5.35 |
No of shafts |
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Machinery |
sails |
Power, h. p. |
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Max speed, kts |
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Fuel, t |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
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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 |
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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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