Africaine
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History | |
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France | |
Name | Africaine |
Namesake | Africa |
Builder | Rochefort |
Laid down | March 1795 |
Launched | 3 January 1798 |
Commissioned | May 1798 |
Captured | 19 February 1801 |
United Kingdom | |
Name | Africaine |
Acquired | Captured, 19 February 1801 |
Fate | Broken up, 1816 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Preneuse-class frigate |
Displacement | 720 tonnes |
Length | 47.8 m (157 ft) |
Beam | 11.9 m (39 ft) |
Draught | 5.8 m (19 ft) |
Propulsion | Sail |
Armament |
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Armour | Timber |
Africaine was one of two 40-gun Preneuse-class frigates of the French Navy built to a design by Raymond-Antoine Haran. She carried twenty-eight 18-pounder and twelve 8-pounder guns. The British captured her in 1801, only to have the French recapture her in 1810. They abandoned her at sea as she had been demasted and badly damaged, with the result that the British recaptured her the next day. She was broken up in 1816.