NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Érigone (ex-Oriflamme)			Saint-Servan	26.9.1832	27.9.1836	1837	stricken 12.1864
Africaine			Saint-Servan	1.2.1835	9.8.1839	11/1840	service craft 1.1861-6/1863, stricken 3.1867
Charte (ex-Douze Avril), 2.1848- Constitution			Arsenal de Brest	26.7.1833	6.8.1842	5/1843	transport frigate1/1873, stricken 12.1879
Héliopolis			Arsenal de Rochefort	8/1830	25.8.1847	7/1849	transport frigate 1.1873, stricken 2.1880

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1701
Displacement full, t
Length, m	48.8 pp
Breadth, m	12.4
Draught, m	5.97
No of shafts
Machinery	sails
Power, h. p.
Max speed, kts
Fuel, t
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	Érigone, Africaine: 4 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML, 16 x 1 - 163/8 30pdr SBML carronades, 26 x 1 - 139/18 18pdr SBML Charte: 4 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No.2 SBML, 26 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML, 16 x 1 - 163/8 30pdr SBML carronades Héliopolis: 2 x 1 - 223/11 No.2 SBML, 2 x 1 - 165/17 30pdr No.1 SBML, 24 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No.2 SBML, 8 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML
Complement	327

Project history

3rd rank frigates, 46 guns. Bouvines and Psyché were cancelled.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.