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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Véloce			Arsenal de Rochefort	15.9.1836	12.3.1838	8/1838	stricken 11.1860
Lavoisier			Indret, Nantes	16.8.1836	4.10.1838	1/1839	stricken 4.1865
Caméléon			Arsenal de Rochefort	17.7.1837	20.11.1839	6/1840	HQ ship 9.1857
Gassendi			Indret, Nantes	15.6.1837	27.9.1840	1/1841	stricken 2.1865
Pluton			Arsenal de Brest	26.2.1838	22.4.1841	9/1841	wrecked 14.11.1854

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	first four: 1334 Pluton: 1509
Displacement full, t
Length, m	first four: 59.4 pp Pluton: 60.3 pp
Breadth, m	first four: 9.16 Pluton: 9.24
Draught, m	first four: 4.23 Pluton: 4.60
No of shafts	side wheels
Machinery	Véloce: sails + 1 2-cyl HSE, side lever, 1 Fawcett flue boiler with 4 compartments Lavoisier, Caméléon: sails + 1 2-cyl HSE, side lever, 1 Fawcett flue boiler with 6 compartments others: sails + 1 2-cyl HSE, side lever, 2 flue boilers
Power, h. p.	440
Max speed, kts	8 - 9.5
Fuel, t	coal 380
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	3 x 1 - 223/11 shell SBML, 4 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML Pluton: 2 x 1 - 223/11 shell SBML, 4 x 1 - 165/17 30pdr SBML
Complement	123

Project history

220nhp steam vessels, later paddle 2nd class corvettes. Had three-masted rig with 1388m² sail area, Pluton first became two-masted with 1114m² sails, other ships were later so modified .

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Pluton was blown ashore 14.11.1854 in a storm while at anchor at Eupatoria, Crimea.