French frigate Médée (1779)

Career (France)
Name: Médée
Namesake: Medea
Builder: Saint Malo
Laid down: January 1778
Launched: 20 September 1778
In service: February 1779
Captured: 4 July 1800
Career (UK)
Name: HMS Medee
Acquired: 4 July 1800
Fate: Hulk in 1802
Broken up 1805
General characteristics
Class and type: Iphigénie-class frigate
Displacement: 620 tonnes
Length: 44.2 metres
Beam: 11.2 metres
Draught: 4.9 metres
Sail plan: Full-rigged ship
Armament:

32 guns: 28 18-pound long guns

4 6-pound long guns

Médée was an Iphigénie-class 32-gun frigate of the French Navy.

She took part in the Battle of Tory Island.

She was captured off Rio de Janeiro at the Action of 4 August 1800 by East Indiamen Exeter and Bombay.

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