Seine-class frigate
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Hull of HMS Revolutionnaire
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Class overview | |
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Name | Seine |
Builders | Le Havre (4); Cherbourg (1) |
Operators | |
Preceded by | Minerve class |
Succeeded by | Virginie class |
Subclasses | Valeureuse class |
Planned | 6 |
Completed | 7 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Frigate |
Displacement | 700 tonnes |
Length | 146 ft 4 in (44.60 m) |
Beam | 37 ft 2 in (11.33 m) |
Depth of hold | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
Armament | 42 guns: |
Armour | Timber |
The Seine class was a class of four 42-gun frigates of the French Navy, designed in 1793 by Pierre-Alexandre Forfait. A fifth vessel, Furieuse, was originally ordered at Cherbourg in February 1794 to Forfait's Romaine-class design, but was instead completed to the design of the Seine class.
The ship builder Charles-Henri Le Tellier produced a further two vessels, the Valeureuse class, which were about 8 inches (20 cm) longer than earlier Seine-class vessels.[1]
The vessels were originally designed to carry a main armament of 24-pounder guns, but in the event all were completed at Le Havre with 18-pounders.
Seine class[]
- Seine
- Builder: Le Havre
- Begun: May 1793
- Launched: 19 December 1793
- Completed: March 1794
- Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy on 30 June 1798, becoming HMS Seine.
- Builder: Le Havre
- Begun: October 1793
- Launched: 28 May 1794
- Completed: July 1794
- Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy on 21 October 1794, becoming HMS Revolutionnaire.
- Builder: Le Havre
- Begun: May 1794
- Launched: late November 1794
- Completed: December 1794
- Fate: Renamed La Pensée May 1795. Converted to a breakwater in November 1804, deleted 1832.
- Builder: Le Havre
- Begun: December 1794
- Launched: 2 September 1796
- Completed: October 1797
- Fate: Burnt to avoid capture by the Royal Navy in April 1809.
- Furieuse
- Builder: Cherbourg
- Begun: March 1795
- Launched: 22 September 1796
- Completed: May 1798
- Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy on 6 July 1809, becoming HMS Furieuse.
Valeureuse class[]
- Builder: Le Havre
- Begun: July 1797
- Launched: 29 July 1798
- Completed: March 1800
- Fate: Sold in September 1806 at Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania for breaking up following condemnation as irreparable at Philadelphia.
- Builder: Le Havre
- Begun: July 1797
- Launched: 6 April 1799
- Completed: March 1800
- Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy on 24 September 1806, becoming HMS Immortalité; never commissioned and sold in January 1811 at Plymouth for breaking up.
Citations[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Winfield and Roberts (2015), p.142.
References[]
- Demerliac, Alain (2004). La Marine de la Révolution: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1792 A 1799 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 2-906381-24-1.
- Demerliac, Alain (2004). La Marine du Consulat et du Premier Empire: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1800 A 1815 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 2-903179-30-1.
- Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 1-86176-246-1.
- Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S. (2015). French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786–1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.
Categories:
- Frigate classes
- Seine-class frigates
- 1790s ships