Virginie class frigate
Virginie fighting HMS Indefatigable
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Virginie |
| Builders: | Toulon |
| Operators: | |
| Preceded by: | Seine class |
| Succeeded by: | Preneuse class |
| Completed: | 10 |
| Cancelled: | 1 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | frigate |
| Displacement: | 720 tonnes |
| Length: | 47.4 metres |
| Beam: | 11.9 metres |
| Draught: | 5.5 metres |
| Armament: | 44 guns: |
| Armour: | Timber |
| Notes: | Ships in class include: Virginie, Courageuse (in 1795 renamed Justice), Volontaire, Harmonie, Cornélie, Didon, Atalante, Rhin, Belle Poule, Surveillante. |
The Virginie class was a class of ten 40-gun frigates of the French Navy, designed in 1793 by Jacques-Noël Sané. An eleventh vessel (Zephyr) begun in 1794 was never completed.
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