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POMONE screw frigate (1846)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Pomone     Arsenal de Lorient 26.10.1842 20.6.1845 5/1846 stricken 11.1862


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

2010

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

54.8 pp

Breadth, m

13.3

Draught, m

6.17

No of shafts1
Machinery

sails + 1 2-cyl HSE, direct action, return connecting rod, boilers

Power, h. p.574
Max speed, kts7
Fuel, tcoal 150-400
Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

8 x 1 - 223/11 No.2 shell SBML, 4 x 1 - 165/17 30pdr No. 1 SBML, 16 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No.2 SBML, 8 x 1 - 163/16 shell SBML

Complement

388



Project history

First French experimental screw frigate, 3rd rank, really a modified 3rd rank sailing frigate with auxiliary screw propulsion. Ordered in 1842.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.