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TANGER paddle corvettes (1850-1854)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Tanger     Arsenal de Brest 6.8.1847 26.3.1849 7/1850 stricken 12.1874
Tisiphone     Arsenal de Lorient 9.11.1847 27.8.1851 4/1854 stricken 7.1872

 

Displacement normal, t

1119

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

56.2 pp

Breadth, m

9.45

Draught, m

3.80 mean

No of shafts

side wheels

Machinery

sails + 1 SE oscillating, 4 tubular boilers

Power, h. p.

300nhp

Max speed, kts

Tanger: 10.5

Tisiphone: 10.3

Fuel, t

coal 220 max

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

4 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML

Complement

128

Project history: 300nhp 2nd class paddle corvettes, wooden hull.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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