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ASTRÉE screw frigate (1860)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Astrée     Arsenal de Lorient - Caudan 26.7.1845 24.12.1859 12/1860 stricken 5.1877


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

3564

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

77.6 pp

Breadth, m

14.4

Draught, m

6.36 mean

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 2-cyl HSE, boilers

Power, h. p.

1411

Max speed, kts

11.2

Fuel, t

coal 464

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

28 x 1 - 165/14 MLR

Complement

415



Project history

2nd rank frigate, converted to screw on the stocks since 1859. Wooden hull.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.