&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Battle_frigates_surveillante_quebec-Detail_Surveillante.jpg) Battle between the French frigate Surveillante and the British frigate Quebec, 6 October 1779, by Auguste-Louis Rossel de Cercy (detail)
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| Name | Surveillante |
| Namesake | French for "monitor, supervisor" |
| Builder | Lorient |
| Laid down | August 1777 |
| Launched | 26 March 1778 |
| Commissioned | May 1778 |
| Decommissioned | January 1797 |
| Fate | Scuttled 1796 |
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| Class and type | Iphigénie-class frigate |
| Displacement | 620 tons (French) |
| Length | 44.2 m (145 ft 0 in) |
| Beam | 11.2 m (36 ft 9 in) |
| Draught | 4.9 m (16 ft 1 in) |
| Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
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Surveillante [syʁ.vɛ.jɑ̃t] was an Iphigénie-class 32-gun frigate of the French Navy. She took part in the Naval operations in the American Revolutionary War, where she became famous for her battle with HMS Quebec; in 1783, she brought the news that the war was over to America. She later took part in the French Revolutionary Wars, and was eventually scuttled during the Expédition d'Irlande after sustaining severe damage in a storm. The wreck was found in 1979 and is now a memorial.
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