Iphigénie-class frigate

A late-18th century frigate
Bellone at the Battle of Tory Island
Class overview
NameIphigénie class
BuildersLorient and Saint-Malo
Operators
Completed9
General characteristics [1]
Typefrigate
Displacement1,150 tonneaux
Tons burthen620 port tonneaux
Length
  • 43.53 m (142 ft 10 in) (overall)
  • 38.98 m (127 ft 11 in) (keel)
Beam11.21 m (36 ft 9 in)
Depth of hold5.68 m (18 ft 8 in)
PropulsionSail
Armament
ArmourTimber

The Iphigénie class was a ship class of nine 32-gun frigates built for the French Navy during the late 1770s at Lorient (2 ships) and Saint-Malo (7 ships). They were designed by the French shipwright Léon Guignace. The seven built at Saint-Malo were initially numbered Nos. 1 – 7 respectively, and not given names until October 1777 (for Nos 1 – 4) and the start of 1778 (Nos. 5 – 7); all seven were captured by the British Navy between 1779 and the end of 1800. Of the two built at Lorient, the Spanish captured one, and a storm wrecked the other.

Builder: Gilles Cambry at Lorient Dockyard
Ordered:
Laid down: February 1777
Launched: 16 October 1777
Completed: March 1778
Fate: Captured by the Spanish in February 1795, becoming Spanish Ifigenia.
Builder: Gilles Cambry at Lorient Dockyard
Ordered:
Laid down: August 1777
Launched: 26 March 1778
Completed: May 1778
Fate: Wrecked in a storm in Bantry Bay, January 1797
Builder: Saint-Malo Dockyard
Ordered:
Laid down: July 1777
Launched: 16 March 1778
Completed: April 1778
Fate: Captured by the British 14 October 1798, becoming HMS Resolue.
Builder: Saint-Malo Dockyard
Ordered:
Laid down: July 1777
Launched: 18 June 1778
Completed: August 1778
Fate: Captured by the British 11 April 1795, becoming HMS Gentille.
Builder: Saint-Malo Dockyard
Ordered:
Laid down: August 1777
Launched: 11 May 1778
Completed: July 1778
Fate: Captured by the British 29 July 1782, but retaken by a French squadron the following day; wrecked off the Penmarch Islands January 1797.
  • Prudente (ex No.4) [8]
Builder: Saint-Malo Dockyard
Ordered:
Laid down: August 1777
Launched: late March 1778
Completed: July 1778
Fate: Captured by the British 2 June 1779, becoming HMS Prudente.
  • Gloire (ex No.5) [9]
Builder: Saint-Malo Dockyard
Ordered:
Laid down: January 1778
Launched: 9 July 1778
Completed: October 1778
Fate: Captured by the British 10 April 1795, becoming HMS Gloire.
Builder: Saint-Malo Dockyard
Ordered:
Laid down: January 1778
Launched: 2 August 1778
Completed: February 1779
Fate: Captured by the British 12 October 1798, becoming HMS Proserpine.
Builder: Saint-Malo Dockyard
Ordered:
Laid down: January 1778
Launched: 23 September 1778
Completed: February 1779
Fate: Captured by the British 5 August 1800, becoming HMS Medee.

Citations

  1. ↑ Winfield and Roberts (2015), pp. 124–5.
  2. ↑ Roche (2005), p. 259.
  3. ↑ Demerliac (1996), p. 62, n°373.
  4. ↑ Roche (2005), p. 427.
  5. ↑ Roche (2005), p. 380.
  6. ↑ Roche (2005), p. 223.
  7. ↑ Roche (2005), p. 37.
  8. ↑ Roche (2005), p. 367.
  9. ↑ Roche (2005), p. 226.
  10. ↑ Roche (2005), p. 71.
  11. ↑ Roche (2005), p. 303.

References

  • Demerliac, Alain (1996). La Marine de Louis XVI: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1774 à 1792 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 9782906381230. OCLC 468324725.
  • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. Vol. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922. (1671-1870)
  • Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S (2015). French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786—1862: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.
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