Cocarde-class frigate
Appearance
Class overview | |
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Name | Cocarde |
Operators | |
Completed | 3 |
General characteristics | |
Type | frigate |
Tons burthen | 895 20⁄94(bm) |
Length |
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Beam | 37 ft 6 in (11.43 m) |
Depth of hold | 11 ft 8 in (3.56 m) |
Crew | 200 |
Armament | |
Armour | Timber |
The Cocarde class was a class of three 40-gun/12-pounder frigates of the French Navy. They were designed by Pierre Duhamel in 1793.
- Builder: St Malo
- Ordered: 16 May 1793
- Laid down: August 1793
- Launched: 29 April 1794
- Completed: July 1794
- Fate: Deleted 14 June 1803
- Builder: St Malo
- Ordered: 16 May 1793
- Laid down: September 1793
- Launched: 1 November 1794
- Completed: April 1795
- Fate: captured by British Navy 27 September 1801 at Alexandria, becoming HMS Alexandria.
- Builder: St Servan
- Ordered:
- Laid down: October 1793
- Launched: November 1795
- Completed: November 1796
- Fate: run ashore near Leghorn to avoid capture 1 September 1801.