Galathée-class frigate
The Galathée class was a type of 32-gun frigates of the French Navy, designed by Raymond-Antoine Haran, with 26 × 12-pounder and 6 × 6-pounder guns. six units were built in all, seeing service during the Naval operations in the American Revolutionary War, and later in the French Revolutionary Wars. The Royal Navy captured and took into service five of the six, the sixth being wrecked early in the French Revolutionary Wars.
- Builder: Rochefort
- Ordered:
- Launched: 1779
- Fate: wrecked in 1795
- Builder: Bordeaux
- Ordered:
- Launched: 1779
- Fate: sold as a privateer and captured in 1804 by the Royal Navy. Taken into British service as HMS Antigua.
- Builder: Rochefort
- Ordered:
- Launched: 1785
- Fate: renamed to Pique, captured by the Royal Navy and taken into British service as HMS Pique in 1796
- Charente Inférieure
- Builder: Rochefort
- Ordered:
- Launched: 1793
- Fate: renamed Tribune in February 1794, captured by British Navy in 1796 and taken into British service as HMS Tribune, being wrecked the next year
- Builder: Bordeaux
- Ordered:
- Launched: 1794
- Fate: renamed Renommée in 1795; captured by British Navy in 1796, becoming HMS Renommee. Broken up 1810
- Builder: Pierre Guibert, Bordeaux
- Ordered:
- Launched: 1794
- Fate: Renamed Décade in 1795; captured by British navy in 1798, becoming HMS Decade. Sold 1811
 Galathée, drawn in 1781 by François Aimé Louis Dumoulin | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Galathée |
| Builders: | Rochefort and Bordeaux |
| Operators: | |
| Completed: | 6 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Galathée class frigate, 44 guns |
| Tons burthen: | 600 tonnes |
| Length: | 44.5 m (146 ft) |
| Beam: | 12.2 m (40 ft) |
| Depth of hold: | 5.5 m (18 ft) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
| Armament: | 32 guns, later upgraded to 44 |
References
- Winfield, Rif & Stephen S Roberts (2015) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786–1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing). ISBN 9781848322042
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