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Early French naval frigates, until the 1740s, comprises two distinct groups. The larger types were the frégates-vaisseau, with batteries of guns spread over two decks; these were subdivided into two groups; the larger were the frégates du premier ordre - or vaisseau du quatrième rang (French Fourth Rates) - usually with a lower deck battery of 12-pounder guns, and an upper deck battery of ...
Médée was a French frégate du deuxième ordre, or 26-gun frigate, built in 1740.She is widely considered to be the inspiration for a long line of similar sailing frigates, and was the first ship captured by the British Royal Navy in the War of the Austrian Succession.
The "seventy-four" was a type of two-decked sailing ship of the line, which nominally carried 74 guns.It was developed by the French navy in the 1740s, replacing earlier classes of 60- and 62-gun ships, as a larger complement to the recently developed 64-gun ships.
The 1740s (pronounced "seventeen-forties") decade ran from ... April 29 – The heavily-armed French Navy frigate Renommée approaches the French colony of Nova ...
HMS Minerva 1759 – taken by the French frigate Concorde in 1778, retaken by HMS Courageux in 1781; HMS Vestal 1757 – broken up 1775; HMS Diana 1757 – sold 1793; Richmond class 32-gun fifth rates 1757–58 (batch 1), 1762–63 (batch 2); designed by William Bately HMS Richmond 1757 – taken by the French in the Chesapeake in 1781
HMS Amethyst was launched in 1790 as the French frigate Perle. The British Royal Navy took possession of her at Toulon in 1793. She was wrecked in 1795 at Alderney.
This is a comprehensive list of 19th-century French steam-driven (or steam-assisted) frigates and corvettes - both paddle-driven and screw-propelled varieties - of the period 1838 to 1860 (including wooden-hulled frigates commenced before but launched after 1860), after which the wooden-hulled frigate merged into the evolving cruiser category.
This is a list of French ships of the line of the period 1621–1870 (plus some from the period before 1621). Battlefleet units in the French Navy (Marine Royale before the French Revolution established a republic) were categorised as vaisseaux (literally "vessels") as distinguished from lesser warships such as frigates (frégates).