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MARCEAU screw avisos (1853)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Marceau     Arsenal de Cherbourg 20.4.1850 19.5.1852 3/1853 stricken 8.1871
Duroc     Arsenal de Cherbourg 29.4.1850 17.6.1852 1/1853 wrecked 13.8.1856

 

Displacement normal, t

450

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

43.2 pp

Breadth, m

7.80

Draught, m

3.22

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 2-cyl VSE oscillating, geared, boilers

Power, h. p.

120nhp

Max speed, kts

Marceau: 9.1

Duroc: 9.6

Fuel, t

coal 81

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 153/16 24pdr SBML

Complement

73

Project history: 120nhp screw 2nd class avisos, wooden hulls.

Modernizations: by 1860, both: - 2 x 1 - 153/16; + 4 x 1 - 121/19 12pdr SBML

by 1861, both: - 4 x 1 - 121/19; + 4 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML

Naval service: Duroc wrecked 13.8.1856 on the Mellish Reef off New Caledonia.

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