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Magicienne-class Frigate
The ''Magicienne'' class was a class of twelve fifth rate 32-gun frigates of the French Navy, each with a main battery of 26 x 12-pounder long guns, and with 6 x 6-pounder guns on the quarterdeck and forecastle. They were designed by Joseph-Marie-Blaise Coulomb. * ''Magicienne'' :Builder: Toulon :Ordered: 7 February 1777 :Begun: March 1777 :Launched: 1 August 1778 :Completed: October 1778 :Fate: captured by British Navy off Boston on 2 July 1781 and added to the British Navy. * ''Précieuse'' :Builder: Toulon :Ordered: 7 February 1777 :Begun: March (or August?) 1777 :Launched: 22 August 1778 :Completed: November 1778 :Fate: out of service in January 1804; broken up in July 1816. * ''Sérieuse'' :Builder: Toulon :Ordered: 28 August 1778 :Begun: March 1779 :Launched: 28 August 1779 :Completed: October 1779 :Fate: sunk at the Battle of Aboukir on 1 August 1798 * ''Lutine'' :Builder: Toulon :Ordered: 23 October 1778 :Begun: March 1779 :Launched: 11 September 1779 :Completed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Frigate Lutine (1779)
''Lutine'' was a frigate which served in both the French Navy and the Royal Navy. She was launched by the French in 1779. The ship passed to British control in 1793 and was taken into service as HMS ''Lutine''. She sank among the West Frisian Islands during a storm in 1799. She was built as a French with 32 guns, and was launched at Toulon in 1779. During the French Revolution, ''Lutine'' came under French Royalist control. On 18 December 1793, she was one of sixteen ships handed over to a British fleet at the end of the Siege of Toulon, to prevent her being captured by the French Republicans. In 1795, she was rebuilt by the British as a fifth-rate frigate with 38 guns. She served thereafter in the North Sea, where she was part of the blockade of Amsterdam. ''Lutine'' sank during a storm at Vlieland in the West Frisian Islands on 9 October 1799, whilst carrying a large shipment of gold. Shifting sandbanks disrupted salvage attempts, and the majority of the cargo has never be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Warships In The Age Of Sail
''British Warships in the Age of Sail'' is a series of four books by maritime historian Rif Winfield comprising a historical reference work providing details of all recorded ships that served or were intended to serve in the (British) Royal Navy from 1603 to 1863. Similar volumes dealing with other navies during the Age of Sail have followed from the same publisher. Scope The books draw data from Admiralty official records to give details on the location of construction, dates of construction (ordering, keel laying, launch, commissioning and completion of fitting-out), principal dimensions and tonnage, complement of men and armament, machinery (for steam vessels) and fate of every ship of the Royal Navy over the period. Designed dimensions and tonnage are given for every class of vessel planned and built for the Navy, but in addition the actual dimensions measured for each individual vessel completed to those designs are separately given; this treatment has also been applied to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Frigate Artémise (1794)
''Artémise'' was a 32-gun frigate of the French Navy. She was under construction in Toulon when the Coalition seized the city in August 1793. They evacuated the city in December 1793, leaving her behind. The French named her ''Aurore'' on 24 July 1794, but then renamed her ''Artémise'' when they launched her on 25 September. At the action of 24 June 1795, along with the 40-gun , she took part in an action against and , escaping while ''Minerve'' was captured. Her captain was relieved of his command for leaving ''Minerve''. In 1798, she took part in the Expedition of Egypt. During the Battle of the Nile on 2 August 1798 and engaged her; outgunned, her crew set fire to her to prevent the British from capturing her. Citations References * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Artemise (1794) Magicienne-class frigates Ships built in France 1794 ships Frigates of the French Navy Maritime incidents in 1798 Ship fires Scuttled vessels Shipwrecks of Egypt Shipwrecks in the Mediterranean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Frigate Topaze (1790)
HMS ''Topaze'' was a Royal Navy 32-gun frigate, originally completed in 1791 as a French . In 1793 Lord Hood's fleet captured her at Toulon. The Royal Navy took her into service under her existing name. She was broken up in 1814. French service ''Topaze'' was ordered on 14 March 1789. In 1793, she cruised in the Gulf of Lion, along with the 40-gun frigate ''Aréthuse''. In August, her home port of Toulon rebelled against Convention nationale and her commanding officer, Grasse-Limermont, surrendered her to the British. At the end of the Siege of Toulon, she fled to Porto-Ferrayo, and was incorporated in the British Royal Navy. British service French Revolutionary Wars In August 1795, ''Topaze'' was commissioned under the command of Captain Stephen George Church. She sailed for Halifax in March 1796. On the morning of 28 August ''Topaze'' was part of a British squadron that was sitting becalmed about four leagues from Cape Henry when they spotted three strange vessels. was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Frigate Sensible (1787)
''Sensible'' was a 32-gun ''Magicienne''-class frigate of the French Navy. The Royal Navy captured her in 1798 off Malta and took into service as HMS ''Sensible''. She was lost in a grounding off Ceylon in 1802. French Navy service From November 1789, she served at Martinique under ''captaine de vaisseau'' Durand de Braye (or Durand d'Ubraye). In September 1790, she ferried Joséphine de Beauharnais and her daughter Hortense from Martinique to Toulon. In 1792, she took part in operations against Sardinia. In 1793, she was equipped as a bomb ship. On 9 December 1795, ''Sensible'' was part of Gantaume's squadron. ''Sensible'', along with the corvettes ''Sardine'' and ''Rossignol'', captured the 28-gun in the neutral port of Smyrna. The French warships entered the harbour in disregard of its neutrality and forced ''Nemesis'' to surrender. Murray Maxwell (then a midshipman) was taken prisoner on this occasion. Under ''lieutenant de vaisseau'' (later ''capitaine de frégate'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Frigate Modeste (1786)
HMS ''Modeste'' was a 36-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She had previously been a ship of the French Navy under the name ''Modeste''. Launched in France in 1786, she served during the first actions of the French Revolutionary Wars until being captured while in harbour at Genoa, in circumstances disputed by the French and British, and which created a diplomatic incident. Taken into British service she spent the rest of the French Revolutionary and most of the Napoleonic Wars under the white ensign. She served with distinction in the East Indies, capturing several privateers and enemy vessels, including the French corvette ''Iéna''. She also saw service in a variety of roles, as a troopship, a receiving ship, and a floating battery, until finally being broken up in 1814, as the Napoleonic Wars drew to a close. French service and capture ''Modeste'' was a ''Magicienne''-class frigate built at Toulon between February 1785 and January 1787, having been launched there o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Frigate Reunion (1786)
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French Frigate Iris (1781)
The French frigate ''Iris'' was a ''Magicienne''-class frigate, one of seven, launched at Toulon in 1781 for the French Navy The French Navy (french: Marine nationale, lit=National Navy), informally , is the maritime arm of the French Armed Forces and one of the five military service branches of France. It is among the largest and most powerful naval forces in t .... Note: Between 1781 and 1784, there were two French frigates ''Iris'', this newly launched frigate, and the former USS ''Hancock'', which the British had captured in 1781 in the American theatre and renamed ''Iris'', and which the French had captured in 1781 and sold in 1784. The British captured the new ''Iris'' at Toulon on 28 August 1793, and burned her on their evacuation of the city in December. Fate When the Royalist French surrendered Toulon to Lord Hood in 1793, they found ''Iris'' dismantled and being used as a powder hulk. As the republicans advanced on the town, the Anglo-Spanish forces evacuated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Frigate La Boudeuse (1766)
''Boudeuse'' was a 32-gun, 12-pounder long gun, 12-pounder-armed sailing frigate named ''Boudeuse'' on 6 June 1765. She is most famous for being the exploration ship of Louis Antoine de Bougainville between 1766 and 1769. She also served in the American Revolutionary War, American and French Revolutionary Wars, during which she captured two enemy vessels. She was broken up for firewood at Malta in early 1800. Career First French circumnavigation ''Boudeuse'', under Antoine de Bougainville, departed from Nantes on 15 November 1766 for the first French circumnavigation of the globe, along with the ''French fluyt Étoile (1767), Étoile''. On board was the botanist Philibert Commerçon and his valet, later unmasked by the ship's surgeon as Jeanne Baré, Commerçon's mistress; she would become the first woman to circumnavigate the globe. The expedition saw islands of the Tuamotu group on the 22 March. On 2 April they saw the peak of Mehetia and famously visited the island of Tahiti, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Frigate Alceste (1780)
''Alceste'' was a ''Magicienne'' class frigate of the French Navy, launched in 1780, that the British seized at the Siege of Toulon. They transferred her to the Kingdom of Sardinia, but the French recaptured her a year later in the action of 8 June 1794. The British captured her again at the action of 18 June 1799 and took her into service as HMS ''Alceste''. In 1801 she became a floating battery and she was sold the next year. Career At the outbreak of the French Revolution, ''Alceste'' served in the Mediterranean until she was put in the reserved and disarmed in Toulon. The royalist insurrection found her there; the British, who supported the royalists, seized her and transferred her to the Kingdom of Sardinia before the conclusion of the Siege of Toulon. The 32-gun ''Boudeuse'' recaptured her in the action of 8 June 1794. The French then took her back into French service. On 4 August 1794 ''Alceste'' and ''Vestale'' were off Cape Bon when they encountered and captured the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Frigate Vestale (1780)
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