French frigate Africaine (1798)

Africaine
History
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	French service:[1] 28 × 18-pounder long guns 12 × 8-pounder long guns British service: UD: 28 × 18-pounder guns QD: 14 × 32-pounder carronades Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades
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.