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AIGLE paddle corvette (1859)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Aigle, 5.1873- Rapide     Arsenal de Cherbourg 18.12.1857 23.12.1858 9/1859 stricken 1.1891


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

2047

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

83.0 pp

Breadth, m

10.5

Draught, m

4.67

No of shaftsside wheels
Machinery

sails + 1 SE, 6 boilers

Power, h. p.1927
Max speed, kts14.2
Fuel, tcoal 270
Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 121/11 bronze shell SBML

Complement

180



Project history

Imperial yacht, classed also as paddle corvette, since 1870 as paddle corvette only.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.