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COMÈTE screw gunboat (1860)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Comète     Lucien Arman, Bordeaux 12/1858 29.9.1859 1/1860 stricken 7.1872

 

Displacement normal, t

820

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

75.8 pp

Breadth, m

8.90

Draught, m

2.65

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 SE, boilers

Power, h. p.

120nhp

Max speed, kts

10.7

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

4 x 1 - 165/17 MLR

Complement

79

Project history: 1st class gunboat, wooden hull.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Comète served as prison ship and transport for Communards in 1871-1872.

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