NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Ariane			Arsenal de Cherbourg	1.8.1827	22.5.1830	1831	condemned 11.1850
Sapho			Saint-Servan	25.7.1828	23.8.1831	4/1834	stricken 12.1843
Boussole			Arsenal de Cherbourg	26.8.1830	21.5.1833	1834	wrecked 3.3.1848
Alcmène (ex-Martinique)			Saint-Servan	12.1.1830	20.9.1834	1835	wrecked 3.6.1851
Sabine			Saint-Servan	29.8.1831	20.9.1834	1835	stricken 10.1849
Embuscade			Saint-Servan	1.9.1832	20.5.1837	1837	stricken 2.1861

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1015
Displacement full, t
Length, m	42.3 pp
Breadth, m	11.0
Draught, m	4.96
No of shafts
Machinery	sails
Power, h. p.
Max speed, kts
Fuel, t
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	28 x 1 - 163/8 30pdr SBML carronades, 4 x 1 - 139/18 18pdr SBML or 4 x 1 - 121/20 12pdr SBML Sapho: 20 x 1 - 163/8 30pdr SBML carronades, 4 x 1 - 139/18 18pdr SBML, 6 x 1 - 138/8 18pdr SBML carronades Boussole, Embuscade: 24 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML, 6 x 1 - 138/8 18pdr SBML carronades
Complement	229

Project history

32-gun spardecked corvettes.

Modernizations

1944, all: - 2 x 1 - 138/8

Naval service

Boussole wrecked 3.3.1848 on Little Curaçao Island. Alcmène wrecked 3.6.1851 during a cyclone at Mocatua on the NW coast of the New Zealand.