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Vésuve-class gunbrig

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The Vésuve class was a class of seven 4-gun gunbrigs (bricks-canonniers).

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The Royal Navy captured three of the seven vessels in the class and took them into British service.

Vésuve class (7 ships)

Builder:
Begun: February 1793
Launched: May 1793
Completed: June 1793
Fate: Captured by HMS Melampus and HMS Hebe on 3 July 1795. Commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Vesuve, sold in 1802
Builder: Lemarchand, Saint-Malo
Begun: March 1793
Launched: May 1793
Completed: June 1793
Fate: Captured in 1803 by boats from HMS Loire; sold in 1807
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Builder: Saint Malo
Begun: 1793
Launched: January 1794
Completed: February 1794
Fate: Struck in Saint Valéry en Caux in December 1798
Notes: Renamed Fantôme in May 1795
Builder: Saint Malo
Begun: 1792
Launched: September 1793
Completed: September 1793
Fate: Decommissioned in Brest in February 1810
Notes: renamed Canonnière n°14 in May 1801
Builder: Saint Malo
Begun: March 1793
Launched: August 1793
Completed: September 1793
Fate: Decommissioned on 31 March 1807
Notes:
Builder: Saint Malo
Begun: 1793
Launched: 1793
Completed: June 1793
Fate: Ran aground in combat against Lapwing, then destroyed by gunfire on 29 November 1796

Notes

  1. [N 1]
    At the time, brass 36-pounder carronades were generally obusiers de vaisseau.

Citations

  1. [1]
    Roche, p. 461, 473
  2. [2]
    Roche, p. 461
  3. [3]
    Roche, p. 473
  4. [4]
    Roche, p. 136
  5. [5]
    Roche, p. 210
  6. [6]
    Roche, p. 237
  7. [7]
    Roche, p. 364-365
  8. [8]
    Roche, p. 454

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 978-1861762467.
  • Winfield, Rif & Stephen S Roberts (2015) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing). ISBN 9781848322042
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