French frigate Comète (1796)

History
France
Name	Comète
Namesake	Comet
Builder	Le Havre
Laid down	October 1794
Launched	11 March 1796
In service	January 1798
Fate	Broken up in 1810
General characteristics
Class and type	Romaine-class frigate
Displacement	700 tonnes
Length	45.5 m (149 ft 3 in)
Beam	11.8 m (38 ft 9 in)
Draught	5 m (16 ft 5 in)
Propulsion	Sail
Armament	40 guns:; 24 × 24-pounders; 16 × 8-pounders;
Armour	Timber

The Comète was a Romaine-class frigate of the French Navy.

She took part in the Atlantic campaign of 1806 and in the Battle of San Domingo.

The frigates Comète and Félicité and the corvette Diligente captured and burned the American vessel Lark, Moore, master, which was sailing from Philadelphia to Jamaica.^{[Note 1]}

From June 1808, she was used as a mast machine in Bayonne and was eventually broken up in 1810.

Notes, citations, and references[]

Notes[]

^ The report in Lloyd's List refers to the "brig Diligente". The French navy had a brig Diligent, but she was not in the area.^[1]

Citations[]

^ Lloyd's List, no. 4061,[1] - accessed 1 February 2014.

References[]

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671–1870. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 121. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.

[2] The report in Lloyd's List refers to the "brig Diligente". The French navy had a brig Diligent, but she was not in the area.^[1]

[1] Lloyd's List, no. 4061,[1] - accessed 1 February 2014.

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History

France
Name	Comète
Namesake	Comet
Builder	Le Havre
Laid down	October 1794
Launched	11 March 1796
In service	January 1798
Fate	Broken up in 1810
General characteristics
Class and type	Romaine-class frigate
Displacement	700 tonnes
Length	45.5 m (149 ft 3 in)
Beam	11.8 m (38 ft 9 in)
Draught	5 m (16 ft 5 in)
Propulsion	Sail
Armament	40 guns: 24 × 24-pounders 16 × 8-pounders
Armour	Timber