Iphigénie-class frigate
Class overview | |
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Name | Iphigénie |
Builders | Lorient and Saint Malo |
Operators | |
Completed | 9 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Type | frigate |
Tonnage | 1,100 tons (French) |
Length |
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Beam | 11.21 m (36 ft 9 in) |
Depth of hold | 5.68 m (18 ft 8 in) |
Propulsion | Sail |
Armament | |
Armour | Timber |
The Iphigénie class was a group of nine 32-gun/12-pounder frigates of the French Navy, built during the late 1770s at Lorient (2 ships) and Saint Malo (7 ships). They were designed by . The seven built at Saint Malo were initially numbered Nos. 1 – 7 respectively, and not given names until October 1777 (for Nos 1 – 4) and the start of 1778 (Nos. 5 – 7); all seven were captured by the British Navy between 1779 and the end of 1800. Of the two built at Lorient, the Spanish captured one, and a storm wrecked the other.
- Builder: Gilles Cambry at Lorient Dockyard
- Ordered:
- Laid down: February 1777
- Launched: 16 October 1777
- Completed: March 1778
- Fate: Captured by the Spanish in February 1795, becoming Spanish Ifigenia.
- Builder: Gilles Cambry at Lorient Dockyard
- Ordered:
- Laid down: August 1777
- Launched: 26 March 1778
- Completed: May 1778
- Fate: Wrecked in a storm in Bantry Bay, January 1797
- Builder: Saint Malo Dockyard
- Ordered:
- Laid down: July 1777
- Launched: 16 March 1778
- Completed: April 1778
- Fate: Captured by the British 14 October 1798, becoming HMS Resolue.
- Builder: Saint Malo Dockyard
- Ordered:
- Laid down: July 1777
- Launched: 18 June 1778
- Completed: August 1778
- Fate: Captured by the British 11 April 1795, becoming HMS Gentille.
- Builder: Saint Malo Dockyard
- Ordered:
- Laid down: August 1777
- Launched: 11 May 1778
- Completed: July 1778
- Fate: Captured by the British 29 July 1782, but retaken by a French squadron the following day; wrecked off the Penmarch Islands January 1797.
- (ex No.4) [8]
- Builder: Saint Malo Dockyard
- Ordered:
- Laid down: August 1777
- Launched: late March 1778
- Completed: July 1778
- Fate: Captured by the British 2 June 1779, becoming HMS Prudente.
- (ex No.5) [9]
- Builder: Saint Malo Dockyard
- Ordered:
- Laid down: January 1778
- Launched: 9 July 1778
- Completed: October 1778
- Fate: Captured by the British 10 April 1795, becoming HMS Gloire.
- Builder: Saint Malo Dockyard
- Ordered:
- Laid down: January 1778
- Launched: 2 August 1778
- Completed: February 1779
- Fate: Captured by the British 12 October 1798, becoming HMS Proserpine.
- Builder: Saint Malo Dockyard
- Ordered:
- Laid down: January 1778
- Launched: 23 September 1778
- Completed: February 1779
- Fate: Captured by the British 5 August 1800, becoming HMS Medee.
Sources and references[]
Notes
References
- ^ Winfield and Roberts (2015), pp. 124–5.
- ^ Roche (2005), p. 259.
- ^ Demerliac (1996), p. 62, n°373.
- ^ Roche (2005), p. 427.
- ^ Roche (2005), p. 380.
- ^ Roche (2005), p. 223.
- ^ Roche (2005), p. 37.
- ^ Roche (2005), p. 367.
- ^ Roche (2005), p. 226.
- ^ Roche (2005), p. 71.
- ^ Roche (2005), p. 303.
Bibliography
- Demerliac, Alain (1996). La Marine de Louis XVI: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1774 à 1792 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 9782906381230. OCLC 468324725.
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922. (1671-1870)
- Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S (2015). French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786—1862: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.
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