List of French steam frigates
This is a non-comprehensive list of French steam-driven frigates (both paddle-driven and screw-propelled) of the period 1841 to 1859:
Paddle frigates
- Gomer Class
- Asmodée 16 (1841)
- Gomer 20 (1841)
- Converted paddle packets
- Darien 14 (1842 at Cherbourg)
- Ulloa 14 (1842 at Cherbourg)
- Christophe Colomb 16 (1843 at Brest)
- Canada 14 (1843 at Brest)
- Magellan 14 (1843 at Brest)
- Caraibe 14 (1842 at Lorient) - Wrecked 1847
- Cacique 14 (1843 at Lorient)
- Eldorado 14 (1843 at Lorient)
- Groenland 14 (1843 at Rochefort) - Wrecked 1844
- Montézuma 14 (1843 at Rochefort) – Wrecked and burnt, 1863
- Panama 14 (1843 at Rochefort)
- Albatross 14 (1844 at Rochefort)
- Labrador 14 (1842 at Toulon)
- Orénoque 14 (1843 at Toulon)
- Descartes 20 (1844)
- Vauban 20 (1845)
- Caffarelli 12 (1847)
- Mogador 8 (1848)
- Pomone 36 (1845)
- Isly 40 (1849)
- Bellone 36 (1853)
- Impératrice Eugenie Class 56 guns
- Impératrice Eugénie (launched 21 August 1856 at Toulon)
- Foudre (launched 2 December 1856 at Toulon)
- Audacieuse (launched 22 January 1856 at Brest)
- Ardente 56 (launched 25 May 1857 at Brest)
- Impetueuse Class 56 guns
- Impetueuse (launched 15 August 1856 at Cherbourg)
- Souveraine (launched 3 June 1856 at Lorient)
- Clorinde 36 (converted from sail 1857)
- Danaé 36 (converted from sail 1857)
- Pandore 36 (converted from sail 1857)
- Renommée 40 (converted from sail 1857)
- Zénobie 36 (converted from sail 1857)
- Astrée 28 (1859)
See also