Armide-class frigate

The Armide class was a type of 40-gun frigates of the French Navy, designed by Pierre Roland. A highly detailed and accurate model of Flore, one of the units of the class, is on display at Paris naval museum, originally part of the Trianon model collection.

Portrait of Pénélope by François-Geoffroi Roux
Class overview
Name: Armide class
Builders: Plans by Pierre Roland
Operators:  French Navy
Preceded by: Preneuse class
Succeeded by: Carrère class
In commission: 1804 - 1823
Planned: 15
Building: 15
Completed: 12
Cancelled: 3
General characteristics
Class and type: Frigate
Displacement: 1330 tonnes
Length: 47 m (154 ft)
Beam: 12 m (39 ft)
Draught: 5.5 m (18 ft)
Propulsion: Sail
Armament:
  • 44 guns:
  • 28 18-pounders
  • 16 8-pounders
  • 2 6-pounders
  • 2 36-pounder carronades
Armour: Timber

Vessels in class
Builder: Rochefort
Begun:
Launched: 1804
Completed:
Fate: captured by British Navy 1806.
Builder: Rochefort
Begun:
Launched: 1805
Completed:
Fate: captured by British Navy 1806.
Builder: Bordeaux
Begun:
Launched: 1806
Completed:
Fate: deleted 1826.
1/48th scale model of Flore, on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris
Builder: Rochefort
Begun:
Launched: 1806
Completed:
Fate: wrecked 1811.
Builder: Cherbourg
Begun:
Launched: 1808
Completed:
Fate: burnt 1809.
Builder: Bordeaux
Begun:
Launched: 1808
Completed:
Fate: captured by British Navy 1809.
  • Saale
Builder: Rochefort
Begun:
Launched: 1810
Completed:
Fate: deleted 1821.
  • Alcmène
Builder: Cherbourg
Begun:
Launched: 1811
Completed:
Fate: captured by British Navy 1814.
  • Circé
Builder: Rochefort
Begun:
Launched: 1811
Completed:
Fate: deleted 1844.
  • Androméde
Builder: Bayonne
Begun:
Launched:
Completed:
Fate: never reached launch stage
  • Emeraude
Builder: Bayonne
Begun:
Launched:
Completed:
Fate: never reached launch stage
  • Cornélie
Builder: Bayonne
Begun:
Launched:
Completed:
Fate: never reached launch stage
  • Antigone
Builder: Bordeaux
Begun:
Launched: 1816
Completed:
Fate:
  • Cléopatre
Builder: Cherbourg
Begun:
Launched: 1817
Completed:
Fate:
  • Magicienne
Builder: Rochefort
Begun:
Launched: 1823
Completed:
Fate:

Sources and references
  • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671–1870. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
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