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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Charlemagne			Arsenal de Toulon	4/1834	16.1.1851	12/1851	steam transport 1868

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	4124
Displacement full, t
Length, m	60.1 pp
Breadth, m	16.2
Draught, m	7.90
No of shafts	1
Machinery	sails + 1 4-cyl HSE direct action, boilers
Power, h. p.	1206
Max speed, kts	9.5
Fuel, t	coal 260
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	6 x 1 - 223/12 No.1 shell SBML, 6 x 1 - 223/11 No.2 shell SBML, 24 x 1 - 165/17 30pdr No.1 SBML, 26 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No.2 SBML, 18 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML
Complement	814

Project history

3rd rank two-decker, converted to screw on the stocks since 1850. Can make 11kts under sail. Wooden hull.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Charlemagne was damaged by a shell explosion in the engine room 17.10.1854.