Armide-class frigate
 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 |
| Building: | 15 |
| Planned: | 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: |
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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, originally part of the Trianon model collection.
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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