Sibylle-class frigate

The Sibylle class was a class of five 32-gun sail frigates designed by Jacques-Noël Sané and built for the French Navy in the late 1770s. They carried 26 x 12-pounder guns on the upper deck and 6 x 8-pounder guns on the forecastle and quarter deck.

Builder: Brest
Begun: April 1777
Launched: 1 September 1777
Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy in February 1783, broken up in 1784
Builder: Saint Malo
Begun: October 1778
Launched: 31 May 1779
Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy in December 1797, becoming HMS Nereide; retaken by the French Navy in August 1810, but destroyed at the Battle of Grand Port in December 1810.
Builder: Nantes
Begun: October 1778
Launched: 11 August 1779
Fate: Wrecked in Chesapeake Bay in November 1793.
Builder: Saint Malo
Begun: December 1778
Launched: 18 January 1779
Fate: Lost in a tempest on 17 March 1780 off St Lucia
Builder: Nantes
Begun: December 1778
Launched: 25 October 1779
Fate: Broken up in 1797.

Start of the action between HMS Magicienne and Sibylle, 2 January 1783.
Class overview
Name: Sibylle
Operators:
Planned: 5
Completed: 5
General characteristics
Displacement: 600 tonnes
Length: 43.9 metres
Beam: 11.2 metres
Draught: 5.4 metres
Propulsion: Sail
Complement: 260
Armament:
  • 32 guns:
  • 26 12-pound long guns on upper deck
  • 6 8-pound long guns on quarter deck and forecastle
Armour: Timber
End of the action between HMS Magicienne and Sibylle, 2 January 1783.


Notes, citations, and references

Notes

    Citations

    1. Roche (2005), p. 415.
    2. Roche (2005), p. 325.
    3. Roche (2005), p. 201.
    4. Roche (2005), p. 150.
    5. Roche (2005), p. 173.

    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. pp. 325–6. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
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