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DESSALINES iron corvette (1883)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Dessalines (ex-Ethel)     Hillman, Camden, USA   7/1883 1883 stricken 1915

 

Displacement normal, t

1200

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

56.4

Breadth, m

9.75

Draught, m

4.50 mean

No of shafts

1

Machinery

 

Power, h. p.

760

Max speed, kts

16

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 107/29 30pdr Parrot MLR, 1 x 1 - 100/26 Canet M1881, 2 x 1 - 87/22 Krupp RK L/24 C/82

Complement

 

Project history: A brig-rigged corvette with one funnel, and built in Philadelphia as the fruit steamer Ethel.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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