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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.
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 ...
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.
1740s; 1750s; 1760s; 1770s; 1780s; 1790s; Pages in category "1740 ships" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. ... French ship Mars (1740) N ...
French frigate Aglaé (1788) French frigate Aigrette (1756) French frigate Alceste (1780) French frigate Amazone (1778) HMS Ambuscade (1746) HMS Ambuscade (1773) French frigate Amélie (1808) French frigate Amphitrite (1808) French frigate Andromaque (1777) French frigate Andromaque (1811) HMS Arethusa (1759) French frigate Aréthuse (1791)
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.
Later in the century, with the advent of the 18-pounder frigate (the first British 18-pounder armed frigate, HMS Flora (36), was launched in 1780), those ships became obsolete and ceased to being built in 1787, when the last one, HMS Sheerness, was launched. Many continued to serve until after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, most of them as ...
Four others, two of them prizes, had the French spelling of the name, Achille. HMS Achilles (1747) was an 8-gun schooner purchased in 1747. She was captured in 1748 by the Spanish. HMS Achilles (1757) was a 60-gun fourth rate launched in 1757, hulked in 1780 and sold in 1784. HMS Achilles (1863) was a broadside ironclad frigate launched