French frigate Infernal
History | |
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France | |
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.
Categories:
- Frigates of France
- Crimean War naval ships of France
- Ships built in France
- Frigates of the French Navy
- 1843 ships
- Ship fires
- Maritime incidents in Chile
- Maritime incidents in October 1861
- Shipwrecks of Chile
- Shipwrecks in the Chilean Sea