Armide-class frigate

The Armide class was a type of 40-gun frigates of the French Navy, designed by Pierre Roland. A highly detailed and accurate model of Flore, one of the units of the class, is on display at Paris naval museum, originally part of the Trianon model collection.

Portrait of Pénélope by François-Geoffroi Roux
Class overview
Name:	Armide class
Builders:	Plans by Pierre Roland
Operators:	French Navy
Preceded by:	Preneuse class
Succeeded by:	Carrère class
In commission:	1804 - 1823
Planned:	15
Building:	15
Completed:	12
Cancelled:	3
General characteristics
Class and type:	Frigate
Displacement:	1330 tonnes
Length:	47 m (154 ft)
Beam:	12 m (39 ft)
Draught:	5.5 m (18 ft)
Propulsion:	Sail
Armament:	44 guns: 28 18-pounders 16 8-pounders 2 6-pounders 2 36-pounder carronades
Armour:	Timber

Vessels in class

• Armide

Builder: Rochefort

Begun:

Launched: 1804

Completed:

Fate: captured by British Navy 1806.

• Minerve

Builder: Rochefort

Begun:

Launched: 1805

Completed:

Fate: captured by British Navy 1806.

• Pénélope

Builder: Bordeaux

Begun:

Launched: 1806

Completed:

Fate: deleted 1826.

1/48th scale model of Flore, on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris

• Flore

Builder: Rochefort

Begun:

Launched: 1806

Completed:

Fate: wrecked 1811.

• Amphitrite

Builder: Cherbourg

Begun:

Launched: 1808

Completed:

Fate: burnt 1809.

• Niémen

Builder: Bordeaux

Begun:

Launched: 1808

Completed:

Fate: captured by British Navy 1809.

• Saale

Builder: Rochefort

Begun:

Launched: 1810

Completed:

Fate: deleted 1821.

• Alcmène

Builder: Cherbourg

Begun:

Launched: 1811

Completed:

Fate: captured by British Navy 1814.

• Circé

Builder: Rochefort

Begun:

Launched: 1811

Completed:

Fate: deleted 1844.

• Androméde

Builder: Bayonne

Begun:

Launched:

Completed:

Fate: never reached launch stage

• Emeraude

Builder: Bayonne

Begun:

Launched:

Completed:

Fate: never reached launch stage

• Cornélie

Builder: Bayonne

Begun:

Launched:

Completed:

Fate: never reached launch stage

• Antigone

Builder: Bordeaux

Begun:

Launched: 1816

Completed:

Fate:

• Cléopatre

Builder: Cherbourg

Begun:

Launched: 1817

Completed:

Fate:

• Magicienne

Builder: Rochefort

Begun:

Launched: 1823

Completed:

Fate:

Sources and references

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