The Seine class was a class of five 42-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 in 1793 by Pierre-Alexandre Forfait. The first four were originally designed to carry a main armament of 24-pounder guns, but in the event were completed at Le Havre with 18-pounders. A fifth vessel, the Furieuse, was originally ordered in February 1794 to Forfait's Romaine class

Romaine class frigate

The Romaine class was a class of nine 42-gun frigates of the French Navy, designed in 1794 by Pierre-Alexandre Forfait. They were originally designated as "bomb-frigates" and were intended to carry a main armament of twenty 24-pounder guns and a 12-inch mortar. Experience quickly led to the...

 design, but was actually completed to the design of the Seine class.

• Seine

Builder: Le Havre

Begun: May 1793

Launched: 19 December 1793

Completed: March 1794

Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy on 30 June 1798, becoming HMS Seine

HMS Seine (1798)

Seine was a 38-gun Seine-class French frigate that the Royal Navy captured in 1798 and commissioned as the fifth rate HMS Seine. On 20 August 1800, Seine captured the French ship Vengeance in a single ship action that would win for her crew the Naval General Service Medal...

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• HMS Révolutionnaire

Builder: Le Havre

Begun: October 1793

Launched: 28 May 1794

Completed: July 1794

Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy on 21 October 1794, becoming Revolutionnaire

HMS Révolutionnaire (1794)

The Révolutionnaire , was a 40-gun Seine-class frigate of the French Navy, launched in May 1794. The British captured her in October 1794 and she went on to serve with the Royal Navy until she was broken up in 1822...

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• Spartiate

Builder: Le Havre

Begun: May 1794

Launched: late November 1794

Completed: December 1794

Fate: Renamed La Pensée May 1795. Converted to a breakwater in November 1804, deleted 1832.

• Indienne

Builder: Le Havre

Begun: December 1794

Launched: 2 September 1796

Completed: October 1797

Fate: Burnt to avoid capture by the Royal Navy in April 1809.

• Furieuse

Builder: Cherbourg

Begun: March 1795

Launched: 22 September 1796

Completed: May 1798

Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy on 6 July 1809, becoming HMS Furieuse

HMS Furieuse (1809)

Furieuse was a 38-gun frigate of the French Navy. She was captured by the Royal Navy in 1809 and taken into servive as the fifth rate HMS Furieuse.-French career and capture:...

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