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RAPIDE paddle aviso (1841)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Rapide     Indret, Nantes 10.6.1840 21.7.1841 8/1841 stricken 10.1859


Technical data


Displacement normal, t201
Displacement full, t 
Length, m

41.1 wl

Breadth, m

6.02

Draught, m2.32
No of shaftsside wheels
Machinery

sails + 1 4-cyl SE, boilers

Power, h. p.60nhp
Max speed, kts 
Fuel, tcoal
Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 121/8 12pdr SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 81/18 4pdr SBML

Complement33 - 44


Project history

60nhp steam vessel, later paddle 2nd class aviso.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.