Serpente-class corvette

Class overview
NameSerpente
Operators
In commission1796–1816
Completed4
Lost1
Retired3
General characteristics [1]
TypeCorvette
Displacement727 ton (French)
Tons burthen350 (bm)[Note 1]
Length40.28 m (132 ft 2 in) (overall)
Beam9.745 m (31 ft 11.7 in)
Draught3.84 m (12 ft 7 in)
PropulsionSail
Complement188
Armament20 × 18-pounder long guns
ArmourTimber

The Serpente class was a class of four 20-gun corvettes for the French Navy, designed by Charles-Henri Tellier as a follow-on to the Etna-class corvettes of the previous year.[2] Four separate commercial shipbuilders were involved in their construction by contract, with three being ordered at Honfleur in 1794 and a fourth at Le Havre across the Seine estuary in 1795. The vessels were flush-decked and designed to carry a battery of twenty 18-pounder guns.[2]

The Royal Navy captured one of the four vessels in the class, and burnt another in action.

  1. ^ Winfield and Roberts (2015), pp. 172-3.
  2. ^ a b c Winfield (2008), pp. 232 & 272.


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