Jacques-Noël Sané
Jacques-Noël Sané (18 February 1740, Brest – 22 August 1831, Paris) was a French naval engineer. He was the conceptor of standardised designs for ships of the line and frigates fielded by the French Navy in the 1780s, which served during the ...
designed the ''Hortense''-class 40-gun
frigate
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The name frigate in the 17th to early 18th centuries was given to any full-rigged ship built for speed and ...
s of the French Navy in 1802, a development of his 1793 design for the
''Virginie'' class. Eight frigates to this new design were ordered between 1801 and 1806, but two ordered on 18 April 1803 at
Antwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504, (''Néréïde'' and ''Vénus'') were cancelled unstarted in June 1803; the other six were built between 1803 and 1807. Of the six, one was wrecked at sea and the British
Royal Navy
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captured three, taking two into service.
[Winfield & Roberts, pp. 144–145]
*
:Builder: Toulon
:Ordered: 6 April 1801
:Laid down: 14 December 1802
:Launched: 3 July 1803
:Completed: January 1804
:Fate: Renamed ''Flore'' on 14 March 1814, reverted to ''Hortense'' 22 March 1815, then back to ''Flore'' 15 July 1815. Deleted 25 November 1840
*
:Builder: Toulon
:Ordered: 2 September 1803 as ''République Italienne''
:Laid down: October 1803, renamed ''Hermione'' on 26 December 1803
:Launched: 2 December 1804
:Completed: March 1805
:Fate: Wrecked 18 August 1808 near Trépied (near Brest).
*
:Builder: Murio & Migone, Genoa
:Ordered:
:Laid down: August 1803
:Launched: 10 February 1805
:Completed: May 1805
:Fate: Captured by the British Navy on 29 November 1811, becoming HMS ''Ambuscade''.
*
:Builder: Cherbourg
:Ordered: 6 October 1803 as ''Département de la Manche''
:Laid down: 22 June 1804
:Launched: 5 April 1806, when name shortened to ''Manche''
:Completed: September 1806
:Fate: Captured by the British Navy on 4 December 1810, but not added to that navy.
*
:Builder: Antwerp
:Ordered: 24 April 1804
:Laid down: May 1804
:Launched: 15 August 1806
:Completed: December 1806
:Fate: Captured by the British Navy on 21 September 1809, becoming HMS ''Bourbonnaise''.
*
:Builder: Toulon
:Ordered: 21 March 1806
:Laid down: May 1806
:Launched: 18 April 1807
:Completed: July 1807
:Fate: Renamed ''Bellone'' on 11 April 1814, reverted to ''Pauline'' on 22 March 1815, then again to ''Bellone'' on 15 July 1815. Deleted 11 December 1841.
References
Bibliography
*Rif Winfield and Stephen S. Roberts, ''French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786-1861: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates''. Seaforth Publishing, 2015. {{ISBN, 978-1-84832-204-2.
Frigate classes