Vengeance-class frigate

The Vengeance class was a type of large sailing frigates designed by Pierre Degay and built in Paimbœuf for the French Navy. Rated at 48 guns,[1] the type was one of the French attempts at increasing the firepower of frigates by mounting a 24-pounder main battery,[2] as was tried with Forfait's Romaine class. The attempt was unsuccessful, and the ships mounted 18-pounder long guns on their main gun deck while in service.[1]

Capture of Immortalité by HMS Fisgard (ex-Résistance).
Class overview
Name:	Vengeance class
Builders:	Paimbœuf
Operators:	French Navy  Royal Navy
In commission:	1793–1814[1]
Completed:	2
General characteristics
Class and type:	48-gun frigate
Tons burthen:	800 tonnes[1]
Length:	48.7 m (159 ft 9 in)[1]
Beam:	12.7 m (41 ft 8 in)[1]
Draught:	6.4 m (21 ft 0 in)[1]
Sail plan:	Full-rigged ship
Armament:	28 x 18-pounder long guns 12 x 8-pounder long guns Further armament on castles[1]

Only two ships of the design were built, both being captured by the British and recommissioned in the Royal Navy.[1][3]

• Vengeance

Builder: Paimbœuf

Begun:June 1793

Launched: 8 November 1794

Completed: By April 1795

Fate: captured on 20 August 1800 by the Royal Navy. Sold in 1814.

• Résistance

Builder: Paimbœuf

Begun: April 1794

Launched: 28 November 1795

Completed: May 1796

Fate: captured on 9 March 1797 by the Royal Navy. Sold in 1814.

References

1. Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 379. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
2. Gardiner. Frigates of the Napoleonic Wars. p. 40.
3. Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 458. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.