French ship Biche (1798)
Career (France) | |
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Name: | Biche |
Namesake: | hind |
Builder: | Brest |
Laid down: | April 1798 |
Launched: | 18 August 1798 |
In service: | September 1798 |
Struck: | 1807 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Agile class schooner |
Displacement: | 65 tonnes |
Length: | 26 m (85 ft) |
Beam: | 6.6 m (22 ft) |
Draught: | 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) |
Propulsion: | Sail |
Armament: | 8 guns |
Armour: | Timber |
The Biche was an 8-gun Agile class schooner of the French Navy.
She took part in the Expédition d'Irlande and in the Battle of Tory Island.
She was decommissioned in 1803.