French frigate Aigle (1782)

Aigle in 1782.
History
French Navy EnsignFrance
NameAigle
NamesakeEagle
BuilderDujardin, Saint Malo, plans by Jacques-Noël Sané
Laid down1779
Launched11 February 1780
AcquiredApril 1782 by purchase
FateCaptured 15 September 1782
Great Britain
NameHMS Aigle
AcquiredSeptember 1782 by capture
CommissionedDecember 1782
FateWrecked 19 August 1798
General characteristics [1][2]
Displacement1200 tons (French)
Length
  • 147 ft 5 in (44.9 m) at gun deck.[3]
  • 37.29 metres at keel.[3]
Beam39 ft 3 in (12.0 m)
Draught5.4 m (17.7 ft)
PropulsionSail
Complement
  • French service:360
  • British service:280
Armament
ArmourTimber

The French frigate Aigle was launched in 1780 as a privateer. The French Navy purchased her in 1782, but the British captured her that same year and took her into the Royal Navy as the 38-gun fifth rate HMS Aigle. During the French Revolutionary Wars she served primarily in the Mediterranean, where she was wrecked in 1798.

  1. ^ Demerliac (1996), p. 56, #333.
  2. ^ Winfield (2008), p. 141.
  3. ^ a b c Monaque (2000), p. 82.