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FONTENOY screw ship-of-the-line (1859)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Fontenoy     Arsenal de Toulon 6/1827 2.12.1858 2/1859 prison ship 5.1871-5/1872, sail transport 1879


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

4051

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

62.5 pp

Breadth, m

16.3

Draught, m

7.50 mean

No of shafts

1

Machinery

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

Power, h. p.

1343

Max speed, kts

10.5

Fuel, t

coal 428

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

14 x 1 - 223/12 No.1 shell SBML, 16 x 1 - 175/16 36pdr SBML, 30 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No.2 SBML, 2 x 1 - 165/14 MLR, 18 x 1 - 163/8 SBML carronades

Complement

814



Project history

3rd rank two-decker, converted to screw on the stocks. Wooden hull.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Fontenoy collided with British steamer Pactolus in January 1862 during trooping to Mexico.