French frigate Mignonne (1767)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Mignonne and HMS Mignonne.

History
French Navy Ensign French Navy EnsignFrance
NameMignonne[a]
Namesake"Pretty"
Ordered5 August 1765
BuilderToulon Dockyard; constructeur: Claude Saussillon
Laid downOctober 1765
Launched26 April 1767
Captured10 August 1794
Great Britain
NameMignonne
Acquired10 August 1794 by capture
FateBurnt July 1797
General characteristics [2][1]
TypeFrigate
Displacement880 tons (French)
Tons burthen684 (bm)
Length
  • 38.98 m (127.9 ft) (overall)
  • 35.08 m (115.1 ft) (keel)
Beam10.39 m (34.1 ft)
Draught4.22 m (13.8 ft) (unladen)
Depth of hold5.12 m (16.8 ft)
PropulsionSails
Complement
  • French service: 157–200
  • British service: 220
Armament
  • French service: 26 × 8-pounder long guns + 4 × 4-pounder guns on the Spar Deck; 6 × 4-pounders from 1787
  • British service: 26 × 9-pounder guns + 6 smaller guns on the QD and Fc

The French frigate Mignonne was a one-off design by Jean-Baptiste Doumet-Revest;[1] she was launched in 1767 at Toulon. Some notable French captains commanded her before the British captured her at Calvi in 1794 and took her into the Royal Navy as HMS Mignonne. She was burnt in 1797 as useless.

  1. ^ a b c Winfield & Roberts (2015), pp. 121–2.
  2. ^ Winfield (2008), p. 216.


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