French frigate Infatigable (1799)
| Career (France) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | Infatigable |
| Builder: | Le Havre |
| Laid down: | 19 July 1797 |
| Launched: | 6 April 1799 |
| Commissioned: | March 1800 |
| Captured: | 25 September 1806 |
| Career (UK) |  |
| Name: | Immortalite |
| Builder: | Le Havre ('"Constructeur: Charles-Henri Tellier) |
| Laid down: | 19 July 1797 |
| Launched: | 6 April 1799 |
| Acquired: | 25 September 1806 |
| Commissioned: | 25 June 1801 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1811 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Frigate |
| Displacement: | 1,341 tons (French) |
| Length: | 47.75 metres (156.7 ft) (overall) 42.22 metres (138.5 ft) (keel) |
| Beam: | 12.07 metres (39.6 ft) |
| Complement: | 340 |
| Armament: | French service UD: 28 × 18-livre guns |
Infatigable was a 40-gun Valeureuse class frigate of the French Navy, built at Le Havre in 1797-1800. She took part in Allemand's expedition of 1805.
A French squadron consisting of Actæon, Armede, Gloire, Infatigable, Jemmapes, Lion, Lynx and Magnanime burnt the sloop Eclipse, Lady Nelson, Matthew, Thetis, and Thomas in an attack at Saint Kitts. The same squadron burnt the Lady Jane Halliday, the Nelly, and the Themis at Nevis.
A four-ship squadron of the Royal Navy under Samuel Hood captured her in the Action of 25 September 1806, together with Gloire, Minerve and Armide after they had left Rochefort.
She was taken into Royal Navy service as HMS Immortalite but never used. She was broken up in January 1811.
References
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005) Dictionnaire des Bâtiments de la Flotte de Guerre Française de Colbert à nos Jours. (Group Retozel-Maury Millau).
- Winfield, Rif & Stephen S Roberts (2015 Forthcoming) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1862: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing). ISBN 9781848322042