Charmante-class frigate
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The Charmante class was a group of five 32-gun/12-pounder frigates of the French Navy, built during the late 1770s at Brest Nantes and Saint Malo. They were designed by Jean-Denis Chevillard. Of the five ships, two were wrecked, two were captured by the British, and one by the Spanish.
- Charmante
- Builder: Brest
- Ordered:
- Laid down: April 1777
- Launched: 30 August 1777
- Completed: January 1778
- Fate: Wrecked on the Chaussée de Sein on 24 March 1780
- Junon
- Builder: Rochefort
- Ordered:
- Laid down: September 1777
- Launched: March 1778
- Completed: May 1778
- Fate: Wrecked by the Great Hurricane of 1780 off Saint Vincent on 11 October 1780
- Gracieuse
- Builder: Rochefort
- Ordered:
- Laid down: November 1785
- Launched: 18 May 1787
- Completed: May 1788
- Fate: Renamed Unité on 28 September 1793. Captured by the British on 11 April 1796, recommissioned as HMS Unite, sold in 1802
- Inconstante
- Builder: Rochefort
- Ordered:
- Laid down: January 1789
- Launched: 9 September 1790
- Completed: February 1791
- Fate: Captured by HMS Penelope and Iphigenia on 25 November 1793 off Saint Domingue and recommissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Convert
- Hélène
- Builder: Rochefort
- Ordered:
- Laid down: 1789
- Launched: 18 May 1791
- Completed: June 1792
- Fate: Captured by the Spanish on 19 February 1793 during the French expedition to Sardinia and recommissioned in the Spanish Navy as Sirena
1777
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5 produced,
Spanish Navy, French Navy, Royal Navy, France,
Charmante, Coquille, Gracieuse, Le Normand-class frigate,
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1777 Charmante-class frigate
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