NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Somme			Arsenal de Cherbourg	23.4.1839	29.8.1840	8/1841 // 1845	stricken 11.1850
Rhin			Arsenal de Rochefort	15.4.1840	21.5.1841	9/1841 // 1845	transport 1849/51, stricken 12.1854
Meurthe			Arsenal de Lorient	12.5.1840	2.11.1842	1/1843 // 1845	transport 1849/51, stricken 9.1852
Seine			Arsenal de Rochefort	26.5.1842	21.2.1845	3/1845 // 1845	wrecked 4.7.1846

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1347
Displacement full, t
Length, m	44.1 pp
Breadth, m	10.7
Draught, m	5.35
No of shafts
Machinery	sails
Power, h. p.
Max speed, kts
Fuel, t
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	Somme, Rhin, Meurthe: 4 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML, 18 x 1 - 151/8 24pdr SBML carronades Seine: 22 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML, 4 x 1 - 106/24 SBML
Complement

Project history

800t flutes or corvettes de charge of Meuse class, reclassified in 1845 as 24gun quarterdecked corvettes.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Seine wrecked 4.7.1846 in the port of Balade, New Caledonia.