Sibylle-class frigate

Start of the action between HMS Magicienne and Sibylle, 2 January 1783.
Class overview
NameSibylle
Operators
Planned5
Completed5
General characteristics
Displacement600 tonnes
Length43.9 metres
Beam11.2 metres
Draught5.4 metres
PropulsionSail
Complement260
Armament
  • 32 guns:
  • 26 × 12-pound long guns on upper deck
  • 6 × 8-pound long guns on quarterdeck and forecastle
ArmourTimber
End of the action between HMS Magicienne and Sibylle, 2 January 1783.

The Sibylle class was a class of five 32-gun sail frigates designed by Jacques-Noël Sané and built for the French Navy in the late 1770s. They carried 26 × 12-pounder guns on the upper deck and 6 × 8-pounder guns on the forecastle and quarterdeck.

Builder: Brest
Begun: April 1777
Launched: 1 September 1777
Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy in February 1783, broken up in 1784
Builder: Saint Malo
Begun: October 1778
Launched: 31 May 1779
Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy in December 1797, becoming HMS Nereide; retaken by the French Navy in August 1810, but destroyed at the Battle of Grand Port in December 1810.
Builder: Nantes
Begun: October 1778
Launched: 11 August 1779
Fate: Wrecked in Chesapeake Bay in November 1793.
Builder: Saint Malo
Begun: December 1778
Launched: 18 January 1779
Fate: Lost in a tempest on 17 March 1780 off St Lucia
Builder: Nantes
Begun: December 1778
Launched: 25 October 1779
Fate: Broken up in 1797.
  1. ^ Roche (2005), p. 415.
  2. ^ Roche (2005), p. 325.
  3. ^ Roche (2005), p. 201.
  4. ^ Roche (2005), p. 150.
  5. ^ Roche (2005), p. 173.