Sibylle-class frigate
 Start of the action between HMS Magicienne and Sibylle, 2 January 1783.
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Sibylle |
| Operators | |
| Planned | 5 |
| Completed | 5 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 600 tonnes |
| Length | 43.9 metres |
| Beam | 11.2 metres |
| Draught | 5.4 metres |
| Propulsion | Sail |
| Complement | 260 |
| Armament | |
| Armour | Timber |
The Sibylle class was a class of five 32-gun sail frigates designed by Jacques-Noël Sané and built for the French Navy in the late 1770s. They carried 26 x 12-pounder guns on the upper deck and 6 x 8-pounder guns on the forecastle and quarter deck.
- Builder: Brest
- Begun: April 1777
- Launched: 1 September 1777
- Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy in February 1783, broken up in 1784
- Builder: Saint Malo
- Begun: October 1778
- Launched: 31 May 1779
- Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy in December 1797, becoming HMS Nereide; retaken by the French Navy in August 1810, but destroyed at the Battle of Grand Port in December 1810.
- Builder: Nantes
- Begun: October 1778
- Launched: 11 August 1779
- Fate: Wrecked in Chesapeake Bay in November 1793.
- Builder: Saint Malo
- Begun: December 1778
- Launched: 18 January 1779
- Fate: Lost in a tempest on 17 March 1780 off St Lucia
- Builder: Nantes
- Begun: December 1778
- Launched: 25 October 1779
- Fate: Broken up in 1797.
Citations[edit]
- ^ Roche (2005), p. 415.
- ^ Roche (2005), p. 325.
- ^ Roche (2005), p. 201.
- ^ Roche (2005), p. 150.
- ^ Roche (2005), p. 173.
References[edit]
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671 - 1870. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. pp. 325–6. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.