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PÉNÉLOPE sailing frigates (1841-1851)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Pénélope     Arsenal de Lorient - Caudan 26.9.1830 25.11.1840 1841 school ship 6.1861
Jeanne d'Arc     Arsenal de Lorient - Caudan 16.7.1835 8.11.1847 5/1851 stricken 12.1864


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

1695

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

48.3 pp

Breadth, m

12.4

Draught, m

5.67 mean

No of shafts 
Machinery

sails

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

 

Armament

Pénélope: 4 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No. 2 SBML, 10 x 1 - 163/8 30pdr SBML carronades, 26 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML

Jeanne d'Arc: 2 x 1 - 223/11 No.2 shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 165/17 30pdr No.1 SBML, 24 x 1 - 165/14 30pdr No.3 SBML, 14 x 1 - 163/8 30pdr SBML carronades

Complement

327



Project history

3rd rank frigates, 46 guns. Wooden hull.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.