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SENTINELLE screw corvette (1849)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Sentinelle     Chaigneau & Bichon, Bordeaux-Lormont 15.1.1847 29.8.1848 6/1849 stricken 8.1869


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

457

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

35.1 pp

Breadth, m

8.62

Draught, m

4.40

No of shafts1
Machinery

sails + 1 2-cyl HSE geared, boilers

Power, h. p.120nhp
Max speed, kts8.5
Fuel, tcoal 54 - 56
Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 121/19 12pdr short SBML, 4 x 1 - 53/17 SBML swivels

Complement

81



Project history

2nd class corvette, iron hull. Steam machinery carried only auxiliary function. Brig-rigged. Reclassified as 1st class aviso in 1859 and 2nd class aviso in 1862.

Modernizations

1851: was armed with 6 x 1 - 121/8 12pdr SBML carronades.

Naval service

No significant events.