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CUVIER paddle corvette (1843)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Cuvier     Arsenal de Lorient 20.1.1841 5.9.1842 1/1843 fire 25.1.1848


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

1656

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

60.0 pp

Breadth, m

11.0

Draught, m

4.75

No of shaftsside wheels
Machinery

sails + 1 HSE direct action, boilers

Power, h. p.618
Max speed, kts8
Fuel, tcoal
Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

4 x 1 - 223/11 shell SBML, 8 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No.2 SBML

Complement

180



Project history

320nhp paddle corvette, later 1st class paddle corvette.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Cuvier burned off Mahon, Majorca 25.1.1848 following the spontaneous combustion of the coal in her bunkers.