French ship Africaine explained

Five ships of the French Navy have carried the name Africaine:

List

• Africaine, a felucca (1664)
• , a (1798–1816)
• Africaine, the renamed, was a 44-gun frigate wrecked in 1822
• (1827–1833), was a balancelle or bateau purchased at Toulon in 1827, decommissioned in 1833, and struck in 1835.
• (1839–72), a 40-gun frigate that also served as a transport, convict transport, and service craft. She was struck from the rolls in 1867 while serving as a storage hulk at Martinique. She was broken up in 1872.
• , an, 1940s to 1963

Other

• Africaine, a French 20-gun ship whose seizure by a British privateer in 1804 off Charleston gave rise to an important court case that helped define the extent of U.S. territorial waters.

See also

• - different spelling
• , two ships of the Royal Navy

References

• Book: Roche, Jean-Michel . 2005 . Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870 . 978-2-9525917-0-6 . 165892922 .
• Book: Winfield . Rif. Roberts . Stephen S. . 2015 . French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786–1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates . Seaforth Publishing . 978-1-84832-204-2.