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ACTAEON 6th rate sailing corvette (1831)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Actaeon     Portsmouth DYd 9.1828 31.1.1831 16.4.1831 survey ship 11.1856


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

620bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

37.0 gundeck

Breadth, m

10.4

Draught, m

2.92 hold depth

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p. 
Max speed, kts 
Fuel, t 
Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

20 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt SBML gunnades, 4 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr 17cwt SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 81/16 9pdr SBML

Complement

175



Project history

26-gun 6th rate corvette. Designed in 1827 by the School of Naval Architecture.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.