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List of French sail frigates

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This is a list of French sail frigates: Number of guns is as rated; most carried some carronades or swivels also.

La Rieuse, a 30-gun oar frigate (1674-1698)
La Rieuse, a 30-gun oar frigate (1674-1698)
Fight of the Poursuivante - 28th of June 1803, Louis-Philippe Crepin
Fight of the Poursuivante - 28th of June 1803, Louis-Philippe Crepin
  • Rieuse 30 (c. 1674)
  • Néréïde (1724)
  • Boudeuse (Louis Antoine de Bougainville)
  • Confiance 22 (Robert Surcouf)
  • Revenant (Robert Surcouf)
  • Vestale 36
  • Gracieuse 24 (1750)
  • Pléiade 26 (1755)
  • Aigrette 30 (1756)
  • Chimère 32 (1758)
  • Diligente 30 (1761)
  • Hussar (c. 1757, ex-British Hussar, captured 1762)
  • Terpsichore 30 (1763)
  • Belle Poule 32 (1765)
  • Sultane 32 (1765)
  • Blanche 32 (1766)
  • Boudeuse 32 (1766)
  • Dédaigneuse 32 (1766)
  • Engageante 32 (1766)
  • Inconstante 32 (1766)
  • Atalante 32 (1767)
  • Amphitrite 32 (1767)
  • Cybèle 32 (1767)
  • Indiscrète 34 (1767)
  • Renommée 30 (1767)
  • Sensible 34 (1767) - Captured by Britain 1798
  • Flore 32 (1768/69?)
  • Mignonne 26 (1768)
  • Zéphyr 42 (1768)
  • Aurore 32/34 (1769)
  • Tourterelle 32 (1770)
  • Alcmène 32 (1774)
  • Aimable 32 (1776)
  • Andromaque 32 (1777)
  • Charmante 32 (1777)
  • Concorde 34 (1777)
  • Fortunée 32 (1777)
  • Iphigénie 32 (1777)
  • Magicienne 32 (1777)
  • Nymphe 32 (1777)
  • Sybille 32 (1777)
  • Amazone 32 (1778)
  • Bellone 32 (1778)
  • Courageuse 32 (1778) - Captured by Britain 1799
  • Gentille 36 (1778) - Captured by Britain 1795
  • Fine 32 (1778)
  • Fox 28 (1773, ex-British Fox, captured 1778)
  • Gentille 32 (1778)
  • Gloire 32 (1778)
  • Junon 32 (1778) - Captured by Britain 1799
  • Medée 32 (1778)
  • Précieuse 32 (1778)
  • Railleuse 32 (1778)
  • Résolue 32 (1778)
  • Surveillante 32 (1778)
  • Capricieuse 38 (1779)
  • Cérès 34 (1779)
  • Diane 34 (1779)
  • Emeraude 32 (1779)
  • Fée 32 (1779)
  • Friponne 38 (1779)
  • Galathée 32 (1779)
  • Hermione 32 (1779)
  • Lutine 32 (1779)
  • Néréïde 34 (1779)
  • Sérieuse 32 (1779) - Sunk at the Battle of Aboukir, 1798
  • Astrée 32 (1780)
  • Cléopâtre 36 - Captured by Britain 1793, renamed Oiseau.


18-pounder armed frigates.

  • Until 1779 the standard armament on the frigate was the 12-pounder gun, but in that year Britain and France independently developed heavy frigates with a main battery of either 26 or 28 x 18-pounder guns. From 1786 the standard designs of Jacques-Noël Sané became predominant and - while other classes of frigate were built, Sané designs formed the vast majority of frigates built up to 1814.
  • La Hébé Class (design by Jacques-Noël Sané, with 26 x 18pdr guns).
    • La Vénus 34 guns (launched 1782 at Brest) - wrecked 1788 in the Indian Ocean..
    • La Hébé 38 guns (launched 1782 at Saint-Malo) - captured by Britain 1782.
    • La Dryade 36 guns (launched 1783 at Saint-Malo) - condemned 1801 and BU.
    • La Proserpine 36 guns (launched 1785 at Brest) - captured by Britain 1796.
    • La Sibylle 36 guns (launched 1791 at Toulon) - captured by Britain 1794.
    • La Carmagnole 38 guns (launched 1793 at Brest) - wrecked at Vlissingen 1800.
  • La Danae Class (design by Charles Segonday-Duvernet, with 26 x 18pdr guns).
    • La Danae 36 guns (launched 1782 at Lorient) - deleted 1796 or later.
    • La Méduse 36 guns (launched 1782 at Lorient) - burnt by accident 1797.
    • La Didon 36 guns (launched 1785 at Lorient) - burnt at Guadeloupe 1792.
  • Justice 40 (1794) - Captured by Turkey 1801
  • Minerve 40 (1794) - Captured by Britain 1795
  • Infatigable 40 (c. 1795) - Captured by Britain 1806, renamed Immortalité
  • Romaine (c. 1795)
  • Muiron (1796)
  • Badine 28
  • Boudeuse
  • Impérieuse 38 - Captured by Britain 1793, renamed Unité
  • Artémise 36 - Burnt at the Battle of Aboukir, 1798
  • Berouse 36/40 (c. 1764, ex-Maltese Santa Maria del Pilar, captured 1798) - BU c. 1798
  • Carthagenoise 40 (1782, ex-Maltese Santa Elizabetta, captured 1798) - Captured by Britain c. 1800, BU c. 1800
  • Alceste 36 - Captured by Britain 1799
  • Brune 22 - Captured by Turkey 1799
  • Diane 40 - Captured by Britain 1800
  • Africaine 40 - Captured by Britain 1801
  • Egyptienne 44 - Captured by Britain 1801
  • Régénérée 36 - Captured by Britain 1801, renamed Alexandria
  • Success 32 (ex-British Success, captured 1801)
  • Avtroil 32 (ex-Russian, captured 1809, ex-Swedish, captured 1789/90)
  • Corcyre 44 (ex-Russian Legkii, captured 1809) - Reduced to 26 guns c. 1810, captured by Britain 1811
  • Iphigénie 40 (c. 1809) - Captured by Britain 1814, renamed Gloire
  • Créole 40
  • Bravoure 36
  • Cornélie 40
  • Sirène 36
  • Favorite 40 - Scuttled at Battle of Lissa 1811
  • Pomone 40 - Captured by Britain 1811
  • Pauline 40
  • Flore 40
  • Uranie 40 - Scuttled 1814
  • Danaé 40
  • Topaze 36
  • Adrienne
  • Pénélope
  • Thémis 40
  • Junon
  • Sirène 60 (2-decker) - French flagship at the Battle of Navarino, 1827
  • Armide 42
  • Fleur-de-lys
  • Iphigénie
  • Vestale
  • Amphitrite
  • Duchesse de Berry
  • Didon
  • Belle Poule 44
  • Semillante 36 - Lost in the sea near Lavezzi (FRA) - 15/02/1855
  • Berceau 32
  • Andromaque 56
  • Belle Poule 56
  • Didon 56
  • Forte 56
  • Independante 56
  • Iphigenie 56
  • Perseverante 56
  • Uranie 56
  • Vengeance 56
  • Alceste 52
  • Andromede 52
  • Nemesis 52
  • Nereide 52
  • Poursuivante 52
  • Sibylle 52
  • Sirene 52
  • Virginie 52
  • Africaine 42
  • Algerie 42
  • Constitution 42
  • Erigone 42
  • Heliopolis 42
  • Isis 42
  • Jeanne d'Arc 42
  • Penelope 42
  • Psyche 42
  • Cleopatre 38
  • Flore 30
  • Bienvenue 32
  • Bellone 34


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