Seine class frigate


Hull of HMS Revolutionnaire
Class overview
Name: Seine
Builders: Le Havre (4); Cherbourg (1)
Operators:  French Navy
 Royal Navy
Planned: 6
Completed: 7
General characteristics
Type: frigate
Displacement: 700 tonnes
Length: 146 ft 4 in
Beam: 37ft 2 in
Depth of hold: 18 ft
Armament: 42 guns:
Armour: Timber
Notes: Ships in class include: Seine, Révolutionnaire, Spartiate (in 1795 renamed Pensée), Indienne, Valeureuse, Infatigable, Furieuse.

The Seine class was a class of 42-gun frigates of the French Navy, designed in 1793 by Pierre-Alexandre Forfait. The vessels were originally designed to carry a main armament of 24-pounder guns, but in the event all six were completed at Le Havre with 18-pounders. The designs of the last pair were modified by the constructor (Charles-Henri Le Tellier) and were somewhat longer than the first four. A further vessel, the Furieuse, was originally ordered at Cherbourg in February 1794 to Forfait's Romaine class design, but was actually completed to the design of the Seine class.

Builder: Le Havre
Begun: May 1793
Launched: 19 December 1793
Completed: March 1794
Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy on 30 June 1798, becoming HMS Seine.
Builder: Le Havre
Begun: October 1793
Launched: 28 May 1794
Completed: July 1794
Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy on 21 October 1794, becoming HMS Revolutionnaire.
Builder: Le Havre
Begun: May 1794
Launched: late November 1794
Completed: December 1794
Fate: Renamed La Pensée May 1795. Converted to a breakwater in November 1804, deleted 1832.
Builder: Le Havre
Begun: December 1794
Launched: 2 September 1796
Completed: October 1797
Fate: Burnt to avoid capture by the Royal Navy in April 1809.
Builder: Le Havre
Begun: July 1797
Launched: 29 July 1798
Completed: March 1800
Fate: Sold to United States in September 1806.
Builder: Le Havre
Begun: July 1797
Launched: 6 April 1799
Completed: March 1800
Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy on 24 September 1806, becoming HMS Immortalité.
Builder: Cherbourg
Begun: March 1795
Launched: 22 September 1796
Completed: May 1798
Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy on 6 July 1809, becoming HMS Furieuse.

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