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The '''''Pallas'' class''' constituted the standard design of 40-gun [[frigate]]s of the French Navy during the [[First French Empire|Napoleonic Empire]] period. [[Jacques-Noël Sané]] designed then in 1805, as a development of his seven-ship |
The '''''Pallas'' class''' constituted the standard design of 40-gun [[frigate]]s of the French Navy during the [[First French Empire|Napoleonic Empire]] period. [[Jacques-Noël Sané]] designed then in 1805, as a development of his seven-ship {{sclass-|Hortense|frigate|4}} of 1802, and the French government ordered in total 62 frigates to this new design. Of these some 54 were completed, although ten of these were begun for the French Navy in shipyards within the Netherlands or Italy, which were then under French occupation; they were completed for the Netherlands or Austrian navies after 1813. |
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==Ships launched in 1808 (7)== |
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*Alain Demerliac, ''Nomenclature des navires francais de 1800–1815'' |
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*Rif Winfield & Stephen S Roberts, ''French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786-1861: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates''. (Seaforth Publishing, 2015) ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2. |
*Rif Winfield & Stephen S Roberts, ''French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786-1861: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates''. (Seaforth Publishing, 2015) ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2. |
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| Class overview | |
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| Name | Pallas |
| Operators |  French Navy |
| Preceded by | Template:Sclass- |
| Subclasses | Ariane[1][full citation needed] |
| Planned | 59 |
| Completed | 54 |
| Cancelled | 5 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Pallas-class frigate |
| Displacement | 1,080 tonnes |
| Length | 46.93 m (154 ft 0 in) |
| Beam | 11.91 m (39 ft 1 in) |
| Draught | 5.9 m (19 ft 4 in) |
| Propulsion | 1,950 m2 (21,000 sq ft) of sail |
| Complement | 326 |
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The Pallas class constituted the standard design of 40-gun frigates of the French Navy during the Napoleonic Empire period. Jacques-Noël Sané designed then in 1805, as a development of his seven-ship Template:Sclass- of 1802, and the French government ordered in total 62 frigates to this new design. Of these some 54 were completed, although ten of these were begun for the French Navy in shipyards within the Netherlands or Italy, which were then under French occupation; they were completed for the Netherlands or Austrian navies after 1813.
Ships launched in 1808 (7)
- Builder: Basse-Indre
- Ordered: 26 March 1805
- Launched: 9 April 1808
- Fate: Stricken November 1821 at Brtest, and broken up 1824
- Builder: Basse-Indre
- Ordered: 26 March 1805 as Aréthuse, renamed Elbe May 1807
- Launched: 23 May 1808
- Fate: Renamed Calypso August 1814. Condemned 1825 and taken to pieces c.1841.
- Builder: Toulon
- Ordered: 10 October 1807
- Launched: 21 July 1808
- Fate: Renamed Junon April 1814. Condemned 1842.
- Builder: Paimboeuf
- Ordered: 19 July 1806
- Launched: 8 August 1808
- Fate: Captured by the British Navy in February 1814, becoming HMS Aurora.
- Builder: Basse-Indre
- Ordered: 26 March 1805
- Launched: 20 August 1808
- Fate: Captured by the British Navy in May 1811, becoming HMS Java; later captured by US Navy in December 1812.
- Builder: Le Havre
- Ordered: 20 May 1806
- Launched: 22 September 1810
- Fate: Wrecked in December 1810
- Note – Favorita was completed for the Napoleonic Italian Navy, but transferred to the French Navy in April 1810.
- Builder: Venice
- Ordered: 1806
- Launched: 4 October 1810
- Fate: Renamed Favorite in April 1810 (on transfer). Burnt at Battle of Lissa March 1811.
Ships launched in 1809 (3)
- Builder: Cherbourg
- Ordered: 1808
- Launched: May 1809
- Fate: Captured by the British Navy in December 1810, becoming HMS Pomone.
- Builder: Vlissingen (Flushing)
- Ordered: 14 August 1806
- Launched: June 1809
- Fate: Captured by the British Navy in August 1809, becoming HMS Laurel.
- Builder: Toulon
- Ordered: 10 October 1807
- Launched: 15 August 1810
- Fate: Renamed Aurore in April 1814, then Dauphine in September 1829 and Aurore again in August 1830. Converted to a transport 1841.
Ships launched in 1810 (4)
- Builder: Basse-Indre
- Ordered: 25 April 1807
- Launched: 1 May 1810
- Fate: Converted to a breakwater 1832
- Builder: Cherbourg
- Ordered: 1809
- Launched: 20 May 1810
- Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy in January 1814, becoming first HMS Palma and then HMS Gloire. before being sold in 1817.
- Builder: Paimboeuf
- Ordered: 11 March 1807
- Launched: 1 July 1810
- Fate: Wrecked in July 1816.
- Builder: Saint Malo
- Ordered: 1807
- Launched: 30 October 1810
- Fate: Renamed Eurydice August 1814. Deleted 1825.
Ships launched in 1811 (9)
- Builder: Basse-Indre
- Ordered: 25 April 1807
- Launched: 7 April 1811
- Fate: Burnt to avoid capture in the Action of 22 May 1812.
- Builder: Genoa
- Ordered: 1808
- Launched: 5 May 1811
- Fate: Hulked 1849. Renamed Muiron 1850. Burnt 1882.
- Builder: Basse-Indre
- Ordered: 10 November 1808
- Launched: 21 May 1811
- Fate: Sunk in the Action of 22 May 1812.
- Builder: Amsterdam
- Ordered:
- Launched: May 1811
- Fate: Transferred to Netherlands 1814.
- Builder: Naples
- Ordered: 1807
- Launched: 16 June 1811
- Fate: Transferred to the Neapolitan Navy in December 1813.
- Builder: Venice
- Ordered:
- Launched: 5 September 1811
- Fate: Transferred to the Austrian Navy in April 1814, becoming their Lipsia.
- Builder: Le Havre
- Ordered: 26 December 1808
- Launched: 3 November 1811
- Fate: Condemned 1822.
- Builder: Saint Malo
- Ordered: 26 December 1808
- Launched: 13 November 1811
- Fate: Renamed Hermione 30 August 1814; stricken 14 April 1841.
- Builder: Amsterdam
- Ordered: 1810 as Alcide, renamed September 1810 before being laid down
- Launched: 17 December 1811
- Fate: Transferred to the Netherlands Navy in May 1814, becoming their Maas.
Ships launched in 1812 (14)
- Builder: Antwerp
- Ordered: 1810
- Launched: 26 February 1812
- Fate: Captured by the fourth rate HMS Majestic in February 1814, becoming HMS Modeste; she was broken up in 1816
- Builder: Antwerp
- Ordered: 1810
- Launched: 25 March 1812
- Builder: Paimboeuf
- Ordered: 26 December 1808
- Launched: 11 April 1812
- Fate: Converted to a 28-gun corvette 1833-1834. Stricken 1851 and broken up after 1865.
- Builder: Genoa
- Ordered: 1808
- Launched: 3 May 1812
- Fate: Stricken at Toulon 6 May 1837.
- Builder: Rotterdam
- Ordered:
- Launched: 9 May 1812
- Builder: Amsterdam
- Ordered:
- Launched: 12 May 1812
- Builder: Amsterdam
- Ordered:
- Launched: 12 May 1812
- Builder: Toulon
- Ordered: 18 January 1810
- Launched: 17 May 1812
- Builder: Basse-Indre
- Ordered: 21 October 1809
- Launched: 25 May 1812
- Builder: Rotterdam
- Ordered:
- Launched: 26 May 1812
- Builder: Lorient - Caudan
- Ordered: 1 July 1809 as Eurydice but renamed 1811
- Launched: 24 June 1812
- Builder: Brest
- Ordered:
- Launched: 12 August 1812
- Builder: Venice
- Ordered:
- Launched: 15 August 1812
- Builder: Genoa
- Ordered: 1811
- Launched: 4 October 1812
Ships launched in 1813 (4)
- Builder: Paimboeuf
- Ordered: 21 October 1809
- Launched: 30 May 1813
- Fate: Captured by the British Navy March 1814, becoming HMS Sultane.
- Builder: Paimboeuf
- Ordered: 21 October 1810 as Hyménée, but renamed before being laid down.
- Launched: 28 July 1813
- Fate: Captured by the British Navy in March 1814, becoming HMS Topaze.
- Builder: Toulon
- Ordered: 20 February 1812
- Launched: 30 September 1813
- Fate: Renamed Néréide about August 1814. Condemned 1825.
- Builder: Venice
- Ordered:
- Launched: October 1813
- Fate: Still incomplete in April 1814 when Venice was captured by the Austrians. Then renamed Anfitrite and later Augusta in the Austrian Navy.
Ships launched in 1814 (3)
As noted below, all three vessels launched in 1814 were never added to the French Navy, as they were completed for the Dutch after the liberation of the Netherlands.
- Builder: Rotterdam
- Ordered:
- Launched: 13 September 1814
- Fate: Completed for the Netherlands Navy in 1816, becoming their Amster.
- Builder: Amsterdam
- Ordered:
- Launched: November 1814
- Fate: Completed for the Netherlands Navy in 1816, becoming their Koningen, later Wilhelmina.
- Builder: Amsterdam
- Ordered:
- Launched: November 1814
- Fate: Completed for the Netherlands Navy in 1816, becoming their Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina.
Ships launched after 1814 (12)
Six of the following were completed for the French Navy after the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy; the other six, laid down in Rotterdam and Venice while those cities were under French control, were completed for the Netherlands and Austrian Navies respectively.
- Builder: Le Havre
- Ordered: 1810
- Launched: 11 April 1815
- Fate: Completed 1816. Hulked 1850 as Remise.
- Builder: Lorient - Caudan
- Ordered: 1810 as Didon, renamed at launch.
- Launched: 25 August 1816
- Fate: Completed 1817. Hulked 1829 and renamed Victoire in August 1830.
- Builder: Rotterdam
- Ordered:
- Launched: October 1816
- Fate: Completed for the Netherlands Navy in 1818, becoming their Vestale, later (1828) Rhijn.
- Builder: Rotterdam
- Ordered:
- Launched: 22 November 1817
- Fate: Completed for the Netherlands Navy in 1819, becoming their Schelde.
- Builder: Brest
- Ordered:
- Launched: 2 September 1818
- Fate: Completed 1823. Hulked 1836.
- Builder: Toulon
- Ordered: 1813
- Launched: 3 May 1819
- Fate: Completed 1822. Renamed 1865 as Lanninon.
- Builder: Paimboeuf originally, then Lorient
- Ordered: 25 March 1812
- Launched: 28 April 1820
- Fate: Completed 1821. Condemned 1842.
- Builder: Venice
- Ordered:
- Launched: 1820
- Fate: Completed for the Austrian Navy in 1821, becoming their Ebe.
- Builder: Paimboeuf originally, then Lorient
- Ordered: 25 March 1812
- Launched: 1 May 1821
- Fate: Completed 1823. Renamed 1866 as Entrepot.
- Builder: Venice
- Ordered:
- Launched: 1827
- Fate: Completed for the Austrian Navy in 1828, becoming their Medea.
- Builder: Venice
- Ordered:
- Launched: 1829
- Fate: Completed for the Austrian Navy in 1830, becoming their Juno.
- Builder: Venice
- Ordered:
- Launched: 1832
- Fate: Completed for the Austrian Navy in 1833, becoming their Venere.
Ships never launched (i.e. cancelled)
- Builder: Venice
- Begun: August 1812
- Fate: Construction abandoned April 1814 at the fall of Venice to the Austrians.
- Builder: Antwerp
- Begun: August 1812
- Fate: Construction abandoned August 1814 at the fall of Antwerp to the Allies.
- Builder: Antwerp
- Begun: September 1812
- Fate: Construction abandoned August 1814 at the fall of Antwerp to the Allies.
- Builder: Antwerp
- Begun: September 1812
- Fate: Construction abandoned August 1814 at the fall of Antwerp to the Allies.
- Builder: Trieste
- Begun: April 1813
- Fate: Construction abandoned October 1813 at the fall of Trieste to the Austrians.
References
Citations
- ^ Roche, op. cit., p. 331
References
- Alain Demerliac, Nomenclature des navires francais de 1800–1815
- Rif Winfield & Stephen S Roberts, French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786-1861: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing, 2015) ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.