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BELLONE screw frigate (1859)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Bellone     Arsenal de Cherbourg 26.8.1845 26.3.1853 // 11.8.1858 8/1859 stricken 2.1877


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

2328

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

56.5 pp

Breadth, m

14.4

Draught, m

6.74

No of shafts1
Machinery

sails + 1 HSE, boilers

Power, h. p.939
Max speed, kts9.8
Fuel, tcoal
Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

4 x 1 - 223/11 No.2 shell SBML, 26 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No. 2 SBML, 2 x 1 - 165/14 MLR, 8 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML

Complement

388



Project history

2nd rank frigate, converted to screw after launch since 1857 and relaunched in 1858. Wooden hull.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.