French frigate Infernal
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Name: | Infernal |
Laid down: | 7 December 1839 |
Launched: | 1 May 1843 |
Christened: | Infernal |
Decommissioned: | 14 December 1861 |
Fate: | Burnt by accident in October 1861. |
General characteristics | |
Displacement: | 1,600 tonnes |
Propulsion: | sails / steam engine |
Armament: | 8 guns |
Armour: | Timber |
Infernal was a wooden-hulled paddle frigate of the French Navy.
She took part in the Crimean War.
She was eventually burnt by accident at Valparaiso on 1 October 1861.
Sources
- Roche, Jean-Michel: Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la Flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours - Tome (Volume) I : 1671 - 1870. Self-publication, 2005.
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