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KERSAINT sloop

Kersaint 1905

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Kersaint   Arsenal de Rochefort 1896 8/1897 10/1898 wrecked 5/3/1919

 

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

VTE, 4 Lagrafel d`Allest boilers

Power, h. p.

2400

Max speed, kts

16

Fuel, t

coal 196

Armament

1 x 1 - 139/45 M1893, 5 x 1 - 100/45 M1893, 7 x 1 - 37/23 M1884

Complement

146

Ship project history: Steel-hulled sloop, sheathed and coppered, with a ram bow and overhanging stern, barquentine rigged.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Kersaint was lost by stranding on a reef at Tahiti 5/3/1919.

 

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