French frigate Danaé (1807)
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France | |
Name | Danaé |
Namesake | Danaë |
Ordered | January 1805 |
Builder | , plans by Jacques-Noël Sané |
Laid down | October 1805 |
Launched | 18 August 1807 |
Acquired | 14 June 1810 |
Stricken | 12 March 1811 |
Fate | Destroyed by explosion 4 September 1812 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Consolante-class frigate |
Displacement | 1320 tonnes |
Tons burthen | 109183⁄94 (bm) |
Length | 48.75 metres (159.9 ft) |
Beam | 12.2 metres (40 ft) |
Draught | 5.9 metres (19 ft) |
Propulsion | Sail |
Armament |
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Armour | Timber |
The Danaé was a 44-gun Consolante-class frigate of the French Navy.
On 12 March 1811, she was part of Bernard Dubourdieu's squadron sailing to raid the British commerce raider base of the island of Lissa. The squadron encountered William Hoste's frigate squadron, leading to the Battle of Lissa.
Danaé was damaged by HMS Volage and had to retreat to Lesina for repairs.
In the night of 4 September 1812, she exploded in the harbour of Trieste.
External links[]
- (in French) BATAILLE DE LISSA
Categories:
- Age of Sail frigates of France
- Ships built in Genoa
- Shipwrecks in the Adriatic Sea
- Maritime incidents in 1812
- 1807 ships
- Frigates of the French Navy
- Consolante-class frigates
- Ships sunk by non-combat internal explosions