Vésuve-class gunbrig

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

Plans of Vésuve as surveyed by the British after her capture
Class overview
Name: Vésuve
Operators:
In commission: 1793-1810
Completed: 7
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: Vésuve
Type: gunbrig
Displacement: 80 ton (French)
Length: 22.7 metres
Beam: 6.5 metres
Draught: 2.4 metres
Propulsion: Sail
Complement: 122-198
Armament:
Armour: Timber

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
Builder:
Begun:
Launched:
Completed:
Fate:
Notes:
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:

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

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

Citations

  1. Roche, p. 461, 473
  2. Roche, p. 461
  3. Roche, p. 473
  4. Roche, p. 136
  5. Roche, p. 210
  6. Roche, p. 237
  7. Roche, p. 364-365
  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 1861762461.
  • Winfield, Rif & Stephen S Roberts (2015) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing). ISBN 9781848322042
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.