Sibylle-class frigate

Start of the action between HMS Magicienne and La Sibylle, 2 January 1783.
Class overview
Name:	Sibylle
Operators:	French Navy  Royal Navy
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 La Sibylle, 2 January 1783.

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.

• Sibylle

Builder: Brest

Begun: April 1777

Launched: 1 September 1777

Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy in February 1783, broken up in 1784

• Néréide

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.

• Fine

Builder: Nantes

Begun: October 1778

Launched: 11 August 1779

Fate: Wrecked in Chesapeake Bay in November 1793.

• Diane

Builder: Saint Malo

Begun: December 1778

Launched: 18 January 1779

Fate: Lost in a tempest on 17 March 1780 off St Lucia

• Émeraude

Builder: Nantes

Begun: December 1778

Launched: 25 October 1779

Fate: Broken up in 1797.

References and sources

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.