NAVYPEDIA

Support the project with paypal


HOME
FIGHTING SHIPS OF THE WORLD
FRANCE
CRUISERS
D'ASSAS screw corvette (1854)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
D'Assas     Arsenal de Lorient - Caudan 2.1.1852 27.4.1854 11/1854 stricken 6.1878


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

1945

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

63.7 pp

Breadth, m

11.0

Draught, m

4.84 mean

No of shafts1
Machinery

sails + 1 4-cyl HSE, boilers

Power, h. p.

400nhp

Max speed, kts

9.8

Fuel, t

coal 378

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 223/11 No.2 shell SBML, 14 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr No.2 SBML

Complement

251



Project history

1st class corvette, wooden hull. Reclassified as screw covered battery corvette in 1856, screw 3rd rank frigate in 1859 and screw covered battery corvette in 1862.

Modernizations

1862: re-engined with 1 2-cyl HSE (1201hp, 9.4kts)

Naval service

No significant events.