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ARTÉMISE sailing frigate (1829-1844)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Artémise     Arsenal de Lorient 5.9.1826 22.1.1828 1/1829 stricken 10.1840
Andromède     Arsenal de Lorient 2.4.1827 5.4.1833 10/1836 stricken 10.1860
Néréïde     Arsenal de Lorient 1.8.1828 17.2.1836 4/1837 transport 12.1863
Gloire     Arsenal de Rochefort 2.4.1827 12.12.1837 4/1838 wrecked 10.8.1847
Cléopâtre     Saint-Servan // Arsenal de Brest 1.9.1827 23.4.1838 6/1838 stricken 12.1864
Danaé     Saint-Servan // Arsenal de Brest 27.9.1827 23.5.1838 8/1838 screw frigate 9.1858, transport 1868
Virginie (ex-Niobé)     Arsenal de Rochefort 26.6.1827 25.4.1842 5/1844 transport 5.1872
Circé     Arsenal de Rochefort 24.4.1847 --- --- built as screw frigate since 1858
Hermione     Arsenal de Brest 10.5.1847 --- --- built as screw frigate since 1859
Junon     Arsenal de Brest 27.4.1847 --- --- built as screw frigate since 1859
Flore     Arsenal de Rochefort 26.7.1847 --- --- built as screw frigate since 1860


Technical data


Data variantsailing screw
Displacement normal, t

2300

2438

Displacement full, t   
Length, m

52.8 pp

60.0 pp

Breadth, m

13.8

13.9

Draught, m

6.70

7.12

No of shafts  1
Machinery

sails

sails + 1 HSE, boilers

Power, h. p.  200nhp
Max speed, kts   
Fuel, t  coal 188
Endurance, nm(kts)

 

 

Armament

Artémise, Andromède: 28 x 1 - 153/18 24pdr SBML, 22 x 1 - 151/8 24pdr SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 139/18 18pdr SBML

Néréïde, Cléopâtre, Danaé: 28 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No.2 SBML, 18 x 1 - 163/8 30pdr SBML carronades, 4 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML

Gloire: 24 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No.2 SBML, 18 x 1 - 163/8 30pdr SBML carronades, 8 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML

Virginie: 2 x 1 - 223/11 No.2 shell SBML, 26 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No. 2 SBML, 18 x 1 - 163/8 30pdr SBML carronades, 4 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML

4 x 1 - 223/11 No.2 shell SBML, 24 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No. 2 SBML, 8 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 165/14 MLR

Complement

441

388



Project history

2nd rank frigate, 52 guns.

Modernizations

1858, Danaé: was converted to screw frigate with data as given in the table

Naval service

Gloire 10.8.1847 grounded  off the SW coast of Korea near Gunsan.