The Charmante class was a group of five 32-gun/12-pounder frigates of the French Navy, built during the late 1770s at Brest (lead ship) Nantes (2 ships) and Saint Malo (2 ships). They were designed by Jean-Denis Chevillard. Of the five ships, two were wrecked, two were captured by the British, and one by the Spanish.
_RMG_J6091.jpg) HMS Unite - Ship plan 1796
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Charmante |
| Builders | Brest, Saint-Malo, Nantes |
| Operators | |
| In service | 1778 (Charmante) - 1796 (Grâcieuse) |
| Completed | 5[1] |
| General characteristics [2] | |
| Type | frigate |
| Tonnage | 540 tonnes |
| Length | 44.2 metres |
| Beam | 11.2 metres |
| Draught | 5.4 metres |
| Propulsion | Sail |
| Armament | |
| Armour | Timber |
- Builder: Brest
- Ordered:
- Laid down: April 1777
- Launched: 30 August 1777
- Completed: January 1778
- Fate: Wrecked on the Chaussée de Sein on 24 March 1780
- Builder: Rochefort
- Ordered:
- Laid down: September 1777
- Launched: March 1778
- Completed: May 1778
- Fate: Wrecked by the Great Hurricane of 1780 off Saint Vincent on 11 October 1780
- Builder: Rochefort
- Ordered:
- Laid down: November 1785
- Launched: 18 May 1787
- Completed: May 1788
- Fate: Renamed Unité on 28 September 1793. Capturd by the British on 11 April 1796, recomissionned as HMS Unite, sold in 1802
- Builder: Rochefort
- Ordered:
- Laid down: January 1789
- Launched: 9 September 1790
- Completed: February 1791
- Fate: Captured by HMS Penelope and Iphigenia on 25 November 1793 off Saint Domingue and recommissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Convert
- Builder: Rochefort
- Ordered:
- Laid down: 1789
- Launched: 18 May 1791
- Completed: June 1792
- Fate: Captured by the Spanish on 19 February 1793 during the French expedition to Sardinia and recommissioned in the Spanish Navy as Sirena
Citations
editReferences
edit- Cunat, Charles (1852). Histoire du Bailli de Suffren. Rennes: A. Marteville et Lefas. p. 447.
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671 - 1870. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. pp. 325–6. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1844157006.