Pallas class frigate (1808)


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Class overview
Name: Pallas
Operators:  French Navy
Preceded by: Hortense class
Completed: 54
General characteristics
Length: 46.93 metres
Beam: 11.91 metres
Draught: 5.9 metres
Propulsion: 1950 m² of Sail
Complement: 326
Armament:

nominally 40 guns
In practice carried either 44 or 46 guns:
Upper deck - 28 long 18-pounder guns

QD & Fc ("les gaillards") - 8 x long 8-pounder guns and 8 x 36-pounder carronades (there were several variant ordnance fits on the gaillards)
Armour: Timber

The Pallas class constituted the standard design of 40-gun frigates of the French Navy during the Napoleonic Empire period. They were designed by Jacques-Noël Sané in 1805, as a development of his seven-ship Hortense class of 1802, and at least fifty-nine frigates were ordered to this new design. Of these some fifty-four were completed, although ten of these which were begun for the French Navy in shipyards within the Netherlands or Italy (which were then under French occupation) were completed for the Netherlands or Austrian Navies after 1813.

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Ships launched in 1808 (7)

Builder: Basse-Indre
Ordered: 1805
Launched: 9 April 1808
Fate: Deleted 1821 or 1822
Builder: Basse-Indre
Ordered: 1805 as Aréthuse, renamed Elbe May 1807
Launched: 23 May 1808
Fate: Renamed Calypso August 1814. Condemned 1825 and taken to pieces c.1841.
Builder: Toulon
Ordered:
Launched: 21 July 1808
Fate: Renamed Junon April 1814. Condemned 1842.
Builder: Paimboeuf
Ordered:
Launched: 8 August 1808
Fate: Wrecked in July 1816
Builder: Basse-Indre
Ordered:
Launched: 21 August 1808
Fate: Captured by the British Navy in May 1811, becoming HMS Java; later captured by US Navy in December 1812.
Builder: Le Havre
Ordered:
Launched: 22 September 1810
Fate: Wrecked in December 1810
Note - Favorita was completed for the Napoleonic Italian Navy, but transferred to the French Navy in April 1810.
Builder: Venice
Ordered:
Launched: 4 October 1810
Fate: Renamed Favorite in April 1810 (on transfer). Burnt at Battle of Lissa March 1811.

Ships launched in 1809 (3)

Builder: Cherbourg
Ordered:
Launched: May 1809
Fate: Captured by the British Navy in December 1810, becoming HMS Pomone.
Builder: Vlissingen (Flushing)
Ordered:
Launched: June or August 1809
Fate: Captured by the British Navy in August 1809, becoming HMS Laurel.
Builder: Toulon
Ordered:
Launched: 15 August 1810
Fate: Renamed Aurore in April 1814, then Dauphine in September 1829 and Aurore again in August 1830. Converted to a transport 1841.

Ships launched in 1810 (4)

Builder: Basse-Indre
Ordered:
Launched: 1 May 1810
Fate: Converted to a breakwater 1832
Builder: Cherbourg
Ordered:
Launched: 20 May 1810
Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy in January 1814, becoming first HMS Palma and then HMS Gloire. before being sold in 1817.
Builder: Paimboeuf
Ordered:
Launched: 1 July 1810
Fate: Wrecked in July 1816.
Builder: Saint Malo
Ordered:
Launched: 30 October 1810
Fate: Renamed Eurydice August 1814. Deleted 1825.

Ships launched in 1811 (8)

Builder: Basse-Indre
Ordered:
Launched: 7 April 1811
Fate: Burnt to avoid capture May 1812.
Builder: Genoa
Ordered:
Launched: 5 May 1811
Fate: Hulked 1849. Renamed Muiron 1850. Burnt 1882.
Builder: Basse-Indre
Ordered:
Launched: 10 May 1811
Fate: Sunk in action May 1812.
Builder: Amsterdam
Ordered:
Launched: May 1811
Fate: Transferred to Netherlands 1814.
Builder: Naples
Ordered:
Launched: 16 June 1811
Fate: Transferred to the Neapolitan Navy in December 1813.
Builder: Venice
Ordered:
Launched: 5 September 1811
Fate: Transferred to the Austrian Navy in April 1814, becoming their Lipsia.
Builder: Le Havre
Ordered:
Launched: 3 November 1811
Fate: Condemned 1822.
Builder: Amsterdam
Ordered: 1810 as Alcide, renamed September 1810 before being laid down
Launched: 17 December 1811
Fate: Transferred to the Netherlands Navy in May 1814, becoming their Maas.

Ships launched in 1812 (13)

Builder: Antwerp
Ordered:
Launched: 26 February 1812
Fate: Captured by the fourth rate HMS Majestic in February 1814, becoming HMS Modeste; she was broken up in 1816
Builder: Antwerp
Ordered:
Launched: 25 March 1812
Builder: Paimboeuf
Ordered:
Launched: 11 April 1812
Builder: Rotterdam
Ordered:
Launched: 9 May 1812
Builder: Amsterdam
Ordered:
Launched: 12 May 1812
Builder: Amsterdam
Ordered:
Launched: 12 May 1812
Builder: Toulon
Ordered:
Launched: 17 May 1812
Builder: Basse-Indre
Ordered:
Launched: 25 May 1812
Builder: Rotterdam
Ordered:
Launched: 26 May 1812
Builder: Lorient
Ordered:
Launched: 24 June 1812
Builder: Brest
Ordered:
Launched: 12 August 1812
Builder: Venice
Ordered:
Launched: 15 August 1812
Builder: Genoa
Ordered:
Launched: 4 October 1812

Ships launched in 1813 (4)

Builder: Paimboeuf
Ordered:
Launched: 30 May 1813
Fate: Captured by the British Navy March 1814, becoming HMS Sultane.
Builder: Paimboeuf
Ordered: 1810 as Hyménée, but renamed before being laid down.
Launched: 28 July 1813
Fate: Captured by the British Navy in March 1814, becoming HMS Topaze.
Builder: Toulon
Ordered:
Launched: 30 September 1813
Fate: Renamed Néréide about August 1814. Condemned 1825.
Builder: Venice
Ordered:
Launched: October 1813
Fate: Still incomplete in April 1814 when Venice was captured by the Austrians. Then renamed Anfitrite and later Augusta in the Austrian Navy.

Ships launched in 1814 (3)

As noted below, all three vessels launched in 1814 were never added to the French Navy, as they were completed for the Dutch after the liberation of the Netherlands.

Builder: Rotterdam
Ordered:
Launched: 13 September 1814
Fate: Completed for the Netherlands Navy in 1816, becoming their Amster.
Builder: Amsterdam
Ordered:
Launched: November 1814
Fate: Completed for the Netherlands Navy in 1816, becoming their Koningen, later Wilhelmina.
Builder: Amsterdam
Ordered:
Launched: November 1814
Fate: Completed for the Netherlands Navy in 1816, becoming their Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina.

Ships launched after 1814 (12)

Six of the following were completed for the French Navy after the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy; the other six, laid down in Rotterdam and Venice while those cities were under French control, were completed for the Netherlands and Austrian Navies respectively.

Builder: Le Havre
Ordered:
Launched: 11 April 1815
Fate: Completed 1816. Hulked 1850 as Remise.
Builder: Lorient
Ordered: 1810 as Didon, renamed at launch.
Launched: 25 August 1816
Fate: Completed 1817. Hulked 1829 and renamed Victoire in August 1830.
Builder: Rotterdam
Ordered:
Launched: October 1816
Fate: Completed for the Netherlands Navy in 1818, becoming their Vestale, later (1828) Rhijn.
Builder: Rotterdam
Ordered:
Launched: 22 November 1817
Fate: Completed for the Netherlands Navy in 1819, becoming their Schelde.
Builder: Brest
Ordered:
Launched: 2 September 1818
Fate: Completed 1823. Hulked 1836.
Builder: Toulon
Ordered:
Launched: 3 May 1819
Fate: Completed 1822. Renamed 1865 as Lanninon.
Builder: Paimboeuf
Ordered:
Launched: 28 April 1820
Fate: Completed 1821. Condemned 1842.
Builder: Venice
Ordered:
Launched: 1820
Fate: Completed for the Austrian Navy in 1821, becoming their Ebe.
Builder: Paimboeuf
Ordered:
Launched: 1 May 1821
Fate: Completed 1823. Renamed 1866 as Entrepot.
Builder: Venice
Ordered:
Launched: 1827
Fate: Completed for the Austrian Navy in 1828, becoming their Medea.
Builder: Venice
Ordered:
Launched: 1829
Fate: Completed for the Austrian Navy in 1830, becoming their Juno.
Builder: Venice
Ordered:
Launched: 1832
Fate: Completed for the Austrian Navy in 1833, becoming their Venere.

Ships never launched (i.e. cancelled)

Builder: Venice
Begun: August 1812
Fate: Construction abandoned April 1814 at the fall of Venice to the Austrians.
Builder: Antwerp
Begun: August 1812
Fate: Construction abandoned August 1814 at the fall of Antwerp to the Allies.
Builder: Antwerp
Begun: September 1812
Fate: Construction abandoned August 1814 at the fall of Antwerp to the Allies.
Builder: Antwerp
Begun: September 1812
Fate: Construction abandoned August 1814 at the fall of Antwerp to the Allies.
Builder: Trieste
Begun: April 1813
Fate: Construction abandoned October 1813 at the fall of Trieste to the Austrians.

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