Sibylle-class frigate explained

The Sibylle class was a class of five 32-gun sail frigates designed by Jacques-Noël Sané and built for the French Navy in the late 1770s. They carried 26 × 12-pounder guns on the upper deck and 6 × 8-pounder guns on the forecastle and quarterdeck.

Builder: Brest

Begun: April 1777

Launched: 1 September 1777

Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy in February 1783, broken up in 1784

Builder: Saint Malo

Begun: October 1778

Launched: 31 May 1779

Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy in December 1797, becoming HMS Nereide; retaken by the French Navy in August 1810, but destroyed at the Battle of Grand Port in December 1810.

Builder: Nantes

Begun: October 1778

Launched: 11 August 1779

Fate: Wrecked in Chesapeake Bay in November 1793.

Builder: Saint Malo

Begun: December 1778

Launched: 18 January 1779

Fate: Lost in a tempest on 17 March 1780 off St Lucia

Builder: Nantes

Begun: December 1778

Launched: 25 October 1779

Fate: Broken up in 1797.

References

• Book: Roche, Jean-Michel . 2005 . Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671 - 1870 . 978-2-9525917-0-6 . 165892922 . 325–6. Group Retozel-Maury Millau.