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
Planned	15
Building	15
Completed	12
Cancelled	3
General characteristics
Class & type	Frigate
Displacement	1430 tonneaux
Tons burthen	759 port tonneaux
Length	47 m (154 ft)
Beam	12 m (39 ft)
Draught	5.5 m (18 ft)
Propulsion	Sail
Armament	44 guns: 28 18-pounders 16 8-pounders 2 6-pounders 2 36-pounder carronades
Armour	Timber

The Armide class was a class of 44-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

• Armide

Builder: Rochefort Dockyard

Begun: 16 November 1802

Launched: 24 April 1804

Completed: May 1804

Fate: captured by British Navy, 25 September 1806.

• Minerve

Builder: Rochefort Dockyard

Begun: 11 May 1804

Launched: 9 September 1805

Completed: November 1805

Fate: captured by British Navy, 25 September 1806.

• Pénélope

Builder: Bordeaux

Begun: 12 February 1804

Launched: 28 October 1806

Completed: January 1807

Fate: broken up, after November 1829.

1/48 scale model of Flore, on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris

• Flore

Builder: Rochefort Dockyard

Begun: 1 July 1804

Launched: 11 November 1806

Completed: March 1807

Fate: wrecked, 1811.

• Amphitrite

Builder: Cherbourg Dockyard

Begun: August 1806

Launched: 11 April 1808

Completed: July 1808

Fate: burnt, 3 February 1809, to avoid capture.

• Niémen

Builder: Bordeaux

Begun: May 1807

Launched: 8 November 1808

Completed: January 1809

Fate: captured by British Navy, 6 April 1809.

• Saale (ex Andromède)

Builder: Rochefort Dockyard

Begun: 10 December 1806

Launched: 28 October 1810

Completed: February 1811

Fate: deleted, 1821 and broken up.

• Alcmène

Builder: Cherbourg Dockyard

Begun: 4 July 1810

Launched: 3 October 1811

Completed: March 1812

Fate: captured by British Navy, 16 January 1814.

• Circé

Builder: Rochefort Dockyard

Begun: February 1810

Launched: 15 December 1811

Completed: March 1812

Fate: deleted, 1844 and broken up.

• Androméde

Builder: Bayonne

Begun: 22 June 1808

Launched: not launched

Completed: cancelled April 1811

Fate: never reached launch stage.

• Emeraude

Builder: Bayonne

Begun: 22 June 1808

Launched: not launched

Completed: cancelled April 1811

Fate: never reached launch stage.

• Cornélie

Builder: Bordeaux

Begun: January 1812

Launched: capsized on stocks 10 March 1814

Completed:

Fate: never reached launch stage.

• Antigone

Builder: Bordeaux

Begun: January 1812

Launched: 13 March 1816

Completed: May 1816

Fate: Deleted 3 August 1828 and hulked

• Cléopâtre

Builder: Cherbourg Dockyard

Begun: 10 March 1812

Launched: 1 April 1817

Completed: June 1817

Fate: Deleted 30 September 1823 and broken up

• Magicienne

Builder: Rochefort Dockyard

Begun: January 1813

Launched: 11 April 1823

Completed:May 1823

Fate: Wrecked 29 November 1840 in the Philippines

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.
• Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S (2015). French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786—1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN   978-1-84832-204-2.