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VICTOIRE screw frigate (1863)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Victoire (ex-Duchesse d' Orléans)     Arsenal de Lorient-Caudan 29.6.1830 21.8.1861 12/1863 stricken 2.1880

 

Displacement normal, t

3582

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

77.2 pp

Breadth, m

14.4

Draught, m

6.56 mean

No of shafts

1

Machinery

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

Power, h. p.

1349

Max speed, kts

10.9

Fuel, t

coal 362

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

8 x 1 - 165/17 30pdr No.1 SBML, 26 x 1 - 165/17 MLR

Complement

466

Project history: 1st rank frigate, converted to screw on the stocks since 1859. Wooden hull.

Modernizations: 1878: + 2 x 1 Hotchkiss MG, 2 towed torpedoes, 2 torpedo launches

Naval service: No significant events.

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