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Virginie (French frigate)
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The Virginie was a 44-gun frigate
Frigate
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of the French Navy
French Navy
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, lead ship of her class
Virginie class frigate
The Virginie class was a class of ten 44-gun frigates of the French Navy, designed in 1793 by Jacques-Noël Sané. An eleventh vessel begun in 1794 was never completed.* Virginie...
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She took part in the First Battle of Groix
First Battle of Groix
The First Battle of Groix was a naval engagement that took place on 16 and 17 June 1795 during the French Revolutionary War off the west coast of France...
and in the Battle of Groix
Battle of Groix
The Second Battle of Groix was a naval engagement that took place on 23 June 1795 during the French Revolutionary War off the west coast of France....
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On 22 March 1796, she was captured by a British squadron comprising HMS Indefatigable
HMS Indefatigable (1784)
HMS Indefatigable was one of the Ardent class 64-gun third-rate ships-of-the-line designed by Sir Thomas Slade in 1761 for the Royal Navy. She had a long career under several distinguished commanders, serving throughout the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars...
, HMS Amazon
HMS Amazon (1795)
HMS Amazon, was a 36-gun frigate, built at Rotherhithe by Wells & Co. in 1795 to a design by Sir William Rule. She was the first of a class of four frigates....
and HMS Concord. She was subsequently recommissioned in the Royal Navy
Royal Navy
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as HMS Virginie.
on 20 May 1808, she captured the Dutch frigate Guelderland.
In Royal Navy service the armament consisted of 46 guns:-
8 Carronades 32 Pounders on the Quarterdeck and Forecastle,
28 Long Ordnances 18 pounders on the Main Deck,
10 Long Ordnances 9 pounders on the Quarterdeck and Forecastle.