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CASTOR paddle aviso (1831)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Castor     Indret, Nantes 1.7.1829 26.5.1831 9/1831 stricken 10.1853

 

Displacement normal, t

750

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

46.3 pp

Breadth, m

8.20

Draught, m

3.33 mean

No of shafts

side wheels

Machinery

sails + 1 2-cyl SE, boilers

Power, h. p.

120nhp

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

6 x 1 SBML

Complement

59 - 73

Project history: 160nhp steam vessel of Sphinx class, later paddle 1st class aviso. In 1849 she was rerated as 2nd class.

Modernizations: 1840s: was armed with 4 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML

Naval service: No significant events.

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