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VALMY sailing ship-of-the-line (1849)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Valmy (ex-Formidable)     Arsenal de Brest 1.3.1838 25.9.1847 1/1849 school hulk 8.1863


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

5570

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

64.2 pp

Breadth, m

16.8

Draught, m

8.74

No of shafts 
Machinery

sails

Power, h. p. 
Max speed, kts 
Fuel, t 
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

8 x 1 - 223/12 No.1 shell SBML, 8 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, 38 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML, 12 x 1 - 163/8 30pdr SBML carronades

Complement

1089



Project history

120-gun three-decker, the sole new sailing three-decker to be completed in France after 1815.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.