Vésuve-class gunbrig
The Vésuve class was a class of seven 4-gun gunbrigs (bricks-canonniers).
_RMG_J6857.jpg.webp) Plans of Vésuve as surveyed by the British after her capture | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Vésuve |
| Operators | |
| In commission | 1793-1810 |
| Completed | 7 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type | Vésuve |
| Type | gunbrig |
| Displacement | 80 ton (French) |
| Length | 22.7 metres |
| Beam | 6.5 metres |
| Draught | 2.4 metres |
| Propulsion | Sail |
| Complement | 122-198 |
| Armament |
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| Armour | Timber |
The Royal Navy captured three of the seven vessels in the class and took them into British service.
Vésuve class (7 ships)
- Builder:
- Begun: February 1793
- Launched: May 1793
- Completed: June 1793
- Fate: Captured by HMS Melampus and HMS Hebe on 3 July 1795. Commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Vesuve, sold in 1802
- Builder: Lemarchand, Saint-Malo
- Begun: March 1793
- Launched: May 1793
- Completed: June 1793
- Fate: Captured in 1803 by boats from HMS Loire; sold in 1807
- Builder:
- Begun:
- Launched:
- Completed:
- Fate:
- Notes:
- Foudre[5]
- Builder: Saint Malo
- Begun: 1793
- Launched: January 1794
- Completed: February 1794
- Fate: Struck in Saint Valéry en Caux in December 1798
- Notes: Renamed Fantôme in May 1795
- Hargneuse[6]
- Builder: Saint Malo
- Begun: 1792
- Launched: September 1793
- Completed: September 1793
- Fate: Decommissioned in Brest in February 1810
- Notes: renamed Canonnière n°14 in May 1801
- Protectrice[7]
- Builder: Saint Malo
- Begun: March 1793
- Launched: August 1793
- Completed: September 1793
- Fate: Decommissioned on 31 March 1807
- Notes:
- Builder: Saint Malo
- Begun: 1793
- Launched: 1793
- Completed: June 1793
- Fate: Ran aground in combat against Lapwing, then destroyed by gunfire on 29 November 1796
Notes
- At the time, brass 36-pounder carronades were generally obusiers de vaisseau.
Citations
- Roche, p. 461, 473
- Roche, p. 461
- Roche, p. 473
- Roche, p. 136
- Roche, p. 210
- Roche, p. 237
- Roche, p. 364-365
- Roche, p. 454
References
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671–1870. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1861762467.
- Winfield, Rif & Stephen S Roberts (2015) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing). ISBN 9781848322042
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