Galathée class frigate
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The Galathée class was a type of 32-gun frigates of the French Navy
French Navy
The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching...
, designed by Raymond-Antoine Haran, with 26 x 12-pounder and 6 x 6-pounder guns. Four units were built, seeing service during the Naval operations in the American Revolutionary War
Naval operations in the American Revolutionary War
The naval operations of the American Revolutionary War , divide themselves naturally into two periods...
, and later in the French Revolutionary Wars
French Revolutionary Wars
The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of major conflicts, from 1792 until 1802, fought between the French Revolutionary government and several European states...
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- GalathéeFrench frigate Galathée (1779)The Galathée was a 32-gun frigate of the French Navy, lead ship of her class.Galathée took part in the Naval operations in the American Revolutionary War, taking part to the capture of Sint Eustatius and to the Battle of the Saintes....
- Builder: Rochefort
- Ordered:
- Launched: 1779
- Fate: wrecked in 1795
- Railleuse
- Builder: Bordeaux
- Ordered:
- Launched: 1779
- Fate: sold as a privateer and later captured by the Royal Navy. Taken into British service as HMS AntiguaHMS Antigua (1804)HMS Antigua was a French frigate launched in 1779. She became a privateer that the British captured in 1804. She served the Royal Navy as a prison ship from 1804 to 1816, when she was broken up.-French service:...
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- Fleur de Lys
- Builder: Rochefort
- Ordered:
- Launched: 1785
- Fate: renamed to Pique, captured by the Royal Navy and taken into British service as HMS PiqueHMS Pique (1795)HMS Pique was a 38-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She had formerly served with the French Navy, initially as the Fleur-de-Lys, and later as the Pique. She was captured in 1795 by HMS Blanche, in a battle that left the Blanches commander, Captain Robert Faulknor, dead...
- Charente Inférieure
- Builder: Rochefort
- Ordered:
- Launched: 1793
- Fate: renamed Tribune in February 1794, captured by British Navy 1796 and taken into British service as , being wrecked the next year