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VÉNUS screw corvettes (1865-1866)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Vénus     Arsenal de Brest 5.9.1861 27.12.1864 10/1865 stricken 12.1886
Minerve     Arsenal de Brest 9/1861 10.7.1865 7/1866 stricken 10.1888


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

2737

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

75.1 wl

Breadth, m

12.9

Draught, m

6.48

No of shafts1
Machinery

sails + 1 VSE, 6 oval boilers

Power, h. p.

1500

Max speed, kts

12.6

Fuel, t

coal 341

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

Vénus: 14 x 1 - 165/17 MLR, 8 x 1 - 165/17 30pdr No.1 SBML

Minerve: 10 x 1 - 165/17 MLR, 12 x 1 - 165/17 30pdr No.1 SBML

Complement

412



Project history

Covered battery corvettes, wooden hull. Reclassified as screw 3rd rank frigates in 1872 and 1st class cruisers in 1874.

Modernizations

1870s, both: were armed with 14 - 16 x 1 - 139/21 M1870

Naval service

No significant events.