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ÉRIGONE sailing frigates (1837-1849)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Érigone (ex-Oriflamme)     Saint-Servan 26.9.1832 27.9.1836 1837 stricken 12.1864
Africaine     Saint-Servan 1.2.1835 9.8.1839 11/1840 service craft 1.1861-6/1863, stricken 3.1867
Charte (ex-Douze Avril), 2.1848- Constitution     Arsenal de Brest 26.7.1833 6.8.1842 5/1843 transport frigate1/1873, stricken 12.1879
Héliopolis     Arsenal de Rochefort 8/1830 25.8.1847 7/1849 transport frigate 1.1873, stricken 2.1880


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

1701

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

48.8 pp

Breadth, m

12.4

Draught, m

5.97

No of shafts 
Machinery

sails

Power, h. p. 
Max speed, kts 
Fuel, t 
Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

Érigone, Africaine: 4 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML, 16 x 1 - 163/8 30pdr SBML carronades, 26 x 1 - 139/18 18pdr SBML

Charte: 4 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No.2 SBML, 26 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML, 16 x 1 - 163/8 30pdr SBML carronades

Héliopolis: 2 x 1 - 223/11 No.2 SBML, 2 x 1 - 165/17 30pdr No.1 SBML, 24 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No.2 SBML, 8 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML

Complement

327



Project history

3rd rank frigates, 46 guns. Bouvines and Psyché were cancelled.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.