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VAUTOUR paddle aviso (1834)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Vautour     Indret, Nantes 10/1830 7.7.1834 12/1834 steam bomb ship 1854, aviso 1855, stricken 5.1863

 

Displacement normal, t

910 - 934

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

47.3 pp

Breadth, m

8.18

Draught, m

3.75 mean

No of shafts

side wheels

Machinery

sails + 1 2-cyl SE HP, 6 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

160nhp

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

6 x 1 - 151/8 24pdr SBML carronades

Complement

77 - 93

Project history: 160nhp steam vessel of Sphinx class, later paddle 1st class aviso.

Modernizations: 1854: was armed with 2 x 1 - 320/3 SBML mortars, 2 x 1 - 165/14 30pdr No.3 SBML

1855: was armed with 6 x 1 - 151/8 24pdr SBML carronades

Naval service: No significant events.

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