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UNITED KINGDOM
SAINT JEAN D'ACRE 2nd rate screw ship-of-the-line (1853)
Ships
Name |
No | Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Saint Jean D'Acre |
Devonport DYd | 6/1851 | 23.3.1853 | 20.9.1853 | sold 1.1875 |
Technical data
| Displacement normal, t | 5499 |
|---|---|
| Displacement full, t | |
| Length, m | 72.5 pp |
| Breadth, m | 16.9 |
| Draught, m | 7.62 |
| No of shafts | 1 (hoisting) |
| Machinery | sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE, trunk |
| Power, h. p. | 2136ihp |
| Max speed, kts | 11.2 |
| Fuel, t | coal |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
| Armament | 1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt SBML, 36 x 1 - 204/13 8'' 65cwt shell SBML, 36 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 28 x 1 - 161/16 32pdr 45cwt SBML |
| Complement | 900 |
Project history
New two-decker 101-gun ship. Surveyor's Department design, approved in 1851. Stretched version of 91-gun Agamemnon class. Reclassed as 99-gun by 1862 and 81-gun in 1863. Wooden hull.
Modernizations
None.
Naval service
No significant events.
