French corvette Cérès (1795)

History
France
Name:	Cérès
Namesake:	Ceres
Builder:	Le Havre
Laid down:	May 1794
Launched:	May 1795
In service:	October 1795
Fate:	Wrecked on the shores of Norway on 17 February 1798
General characteristics [1][2]
Type:	Corvette
Displacement:	642-719 tons (French)
Tons burthen:	c.564 (bm)[Note 1]
Length:	35.9 metres
Beam:	9.7 metres
Draught:	5.2 metres
Propulsion:	Sail
Complement:	122-198[2]
Armament:	18 x 18-pounder long guns (1798)[2]
Armour:	Timber

Cérès was an 18-gun Etna-class corvette of the French Navy, launched in 1795. Begun in 1794 as Courageuse, the corvette was renamed Cérès in May 1795 and launched the same month. In 1797, she was again renamed, to Enfant de la Patrie. She was wrecked on the shores of Norway on 17 February 1798.^[1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

1. This is based on the descriptions of the three members of the class that the Royal Navy captured, as described in Winfield.^[3]

Citations

1. Roche (2005), p.104.
2. Winfield and Roberts (2015 forthcoming), Chap. 6.
3. Winfield (2008), pp. 232 & 272.

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.
• Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 1861762461.
• Winfield, Rif & Stephen S Roberts (2015 Forthcoming) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1862: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing). ISBN 9781848322042