Cocarde class frigate
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| Class overview |
| Name: |
Cocarde |
| Operators: |
French Navy
Royal Navy |
| Completed: |
3 |
| General characteristics |
| Type: |
frigate |
| Armament: |
40 guns:
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| Armour: |
Timber |
The Cocarde class was a class of three 40-gun/12-pounder frigates of the French Navy. They were designed by Pierre Duhamel in 1793.
- Builder: St Malo
- Ordered: 16 May 1793
- Laid down: August 1793
- Launched: 29 April 1794
- Completed: July 1794
- Fate: Deleted 14 June 1803
- Builder: St Malo
- Ordered: 16 May 1793
- Laid down: September 1793
- Launched: 1 November 1794
- Completed: April 1795
- Fate: captured by British Navy 27 September 1801 at Alexandria, becoming HMS Alexandria.
- Builder: St Servan
- Ordered:
- Laid down: October 1793
- Launched: November 1795
- Completed: November 1796
- Fate: run ashore near Leghorn to avoid capture 1 September 1801.