French frigate Cocarde (1794)

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History
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NameCocarde
Ordered16 May 1793
BuilderSaint Malo
Laid downAugust 1793
Launched29 April 1794
CompletedJuly 1794
FateBroken up 1803
General characteristics
Class & type Cocarde-class frigate
Typefrigate
Tons burthen902 tons [1] Ship tonnage=
Length
  • 144 ft 3 in (43.97 m) (overall);
  • 119 ft 8+12 in (36.487 m) (keel)
Beam37 ft 6 in (11.43 m)
Depth of hold11 ft 8 in (3.56 m)
Crew200
Armament
  • 40 guns:
  • 28 × 12-pounder long guns
  • 12 × 6-pounder long guns
ArmourTimber

Cocarde was a 40-gun Cocarde-class frigate of the French Navy.

Commissioned as Cocarde nationale, she was launched on 29 April 1794 in Saint Malo and commissioned in July under Lieutenant Allanic. Under Captain Quérangal, she took part in the Battle of Groix. She later took part in the Expédition d'Irlande. She was renamed Cocarde in June 1796.

During the Quasi War on 10 July 1799, under command of Citizen Croiset, she captured the American armed merchant ship Rufus4 leagues (19 km) east southeast of Cadiz, Spain. [2]

In 1802, she served in the Caribbean. A series of beachings damaged her sails and hull to the point where she was condemned and broken up in 1803.

Citations

  1. HMS Alexandria Archived 5 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine , Naval Database
  2. "Naval Documents related to the Quasi-War Between the United States and France Volume 2 Part 4 of 4 Naval Operations April 1799 to July 1799 July Pg. 483-484" (PDF). U.S. Government printing office via Imbiblio. Retrieved 25 April 2024.

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