Armide-class frigate
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Armide |
| Builders: | Plans by Pierre Roland |
| Operators: |  French Navy |
| Preceded by: | Preneuse-class |
| Succeeded by: | Carrère-class |
| In commission: | 1804 - 1823 |
| Building: | 15 |
| Planned: | 15 |
| Completed: | 12 |
| Cancelled: | 3 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Armide-class |
| Displacement: | 1330 tonnes |
| Length: | 47 m (154 ft) |
| Beam: | 12 m (39 ft) |
| Draught: | 5.5 m (18 ft) |
| Propulsion: | Sail |
| Armament: |
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| Armour: | Timber |
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.
- 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 the 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
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