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KERSAINT steel sloop (1898)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Kersaint     Arsenal de Rochefort 1896 8.1897 10.1898 wrecked 5.3.1919


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

1276

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

68.6

Breadth, m

10.5

Draught, m

4.57 max

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 4 Lagrafel d`Allest boilers

Power, h. p.

2400

Max speed, kts

16

Fuel, t

coal 196

Endurance, nm(kts)4000(10)
Armament

1 x 1 - 139/45 M1893, 5 x 1 - 100/45 M1893, 7 x 1 - 37/20 M1885

Complement

146



Project history

Steel-hulled sloop, sheathed and coppered, with a ram bow and overhanging stern, barquentine rigged. The 139mm was on the forecastle with one 100mm on the poop and the others in upper deck sponsons.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Kersaint was lost by stranding on a reef at Tahiti 5.3.1919.