French corvette Forfait

History
France
Name	Forfait
Namesake	Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait (1752–1807), French engineer, hydrographer, politician, and Minister of the Navy (1799–1801)
Launched	1859
Commissioned	1860
Fate	Sunk in collision 21 July 1875
General characteristics
Type	Screw corvette
Displacement	1,126 tons
Length	222 ft (68 m)
Propulsion	Steam engine, screw
Sail plan	Barque rig
Speed	12 knots
Complement	161
Armament	As built 4 × 6-inch (152-mm) guns Later 6 × 6-inch (152-mm) guns
Armor	None

Forfait was an unarmored screw corvette^[1] built for the French Navy in the late 1850s that entered service in 1860. She saw service in the French intervention in Mexico in the 1860s and was sunk in a collision in 1875.