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BRETAGNE screw ship-of-the-line (1856)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Bretagne     Arsenal de Brest 1/1853 17.2.1855 6/1856 stricken 7.1866


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

6874

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

81.0 pp

Breadth, m

18.1

Draught, m

9.03

No of shafts1
Machinery

sails + 1 4-cyl HSE, 8 boilers

Power, h. p.3327
Max speed, kts12.8
Fuel, tcoal 590
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

18 x 1 - 223/12 No.1 shell SBML, 18 x 1 - 223/11 No.2 shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 194/16 50pdr SBML, 18 x 1 - 175/16 36pdr SBML, 18 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No.2 SBML, 38 x 1 - 165/14 30pdr No.3 SBML, 18 x 1 - 163/8 30pdr SBML carronades

Complement

1170



Project history

130-gun three-decker, laid down instead of the sailing ship with the same name using the timber prepared for her. Ship was overloaded as built, lower battery was only 1.45 higher than wl instead of planned 1.76m. Seagoing qualities were also very poor.  Wooden hull.

Modernizations

1865: machinery was removed.

Naval service

No significant events.