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BRETAGNE sailing ships-of-the-line


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Bretagne     Arsenal de Brest 4.8.1851 --- --- cancelled 9.1852
Desaix     Arsenal de Cherbourg 27.10.1851 --- --- cancelled 9.1852


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

5095

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

63.8 pp

Breadth, m

16.4

Draught, m

8.14

No of shafts 
Machinery

sails

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

4 x 1 - 223/12 No.1 shell SBML, 6 x 1 - 223/11 No.2 shell SBML, 4 x 1 - 194/16 50pdr SBML, 24 x 1 - 165/17 30pdr No.1 SBML, 28 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No.2 SBML, 34 x 1 - 165/14 30pdr No.3 SBML, 12 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML

Complement

1130



Project history

120-gun three-deckers left incomplete as sailing ships.