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PRONY paddle corvette (1849)


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Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Prony (ex-Socrate)     Arsenal de Brest 2.1.1845 23.9.1847 3/1849 wrecked 5.11.1861


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

1365

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

60.8 pp

Breadth, m

10.2

Draught, m

4.15

No of shaftsside wheels
Machinery

sails + 1 SE direct acting, double traverse, tubular boilers

Power, h. p.853
Max speed, kts12.2
Fuel, tcoal
Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

3 x 1 - 223/11 shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML

Complement

136



Project history

320nhp 1st class paddle corvette.

Modernizations

1851: - 3 x 1 - 223/11; + 2 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No.2 SBML, 1 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML.

Naval service

Prony wrecked 5.11.1861 in Ocracoke Inlet near Cape Hatteras in a storm.