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CHAPTAL screw corvette (1846)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Chaptal     Farnçois Cavé, Asnières-sur-Seine/Cavé 7/1844 9.12.1845 11/1846 wrecked 25.10.1862


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

1007

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

54.3 wl

Breadth, m

9.53

Draught, m

3.76 mean

No of shafts1
Machinery

sails + 1 2-cyl HSE oscillating direct-action, boilers

Power, h. p.220nhp
Max speed, kts9.8
Fuel, tcoal 260
Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 223/12 No.1 shell SBML, 1 x 1 - 223/11 No.2 shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 165/17 30pdr No. 1 SBML

Complement

123



Project history

2nd class corvette, iron hull. Originally planned as paddle corvette but reordered in 1842 as screw ship for comparison with paddle ships of the same class.

Modernizations

1847: - 1 x 1 - 223/12, 1 x 1 - 165/17

Naval service

Chaptal ran ashore 25.10.1862 in a storm near Vera Cruz, Mexico.