&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:VESUVE_FL.1795_(FRENCH)_RMG_J6857.jpg) Plans of Vésuve, lead ship of the class
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| Name | Volage |
| Builder | Lemarchand, Saint-Malo[1] |
| Laid down | March 1793[2] |
| Launched | May 1793[2] |
| In service | June 1793[2] |
| Renamed | Venteux (May 1795)[2] |
| Captured | 27 June 1803 |
 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Eagle |
| Acquired | 1803 by capture |
| Commissioned | September 1803 |
| Renamed | HMS Eclipse (1804) |
| Fate | Sold April 1807 |
| General characteristics [3][4] | |
| Class and type | Vésuve-class gunbrig |
| Tons burthen | 158 (bm) |
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| Beam | 22 ft 3+5⁄8 in (6.8 m) |
| Depth of hold | 7 ft 5 in (2.3 m) |
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HMS Eclipse was a French Navy Vésuve-class[1] brick-canonnier or chaloupe-canonnière,[2] (gunbrig) launched at Saint-Malo in 1793 as Volage. She was renamed Venteux in 1795 (possibly also Vérité on 30 May 1795,[2] although this might have been a second ship of the same name.[5] The British Royal Navy captured her in 1803 and took her into service as HMS Eagle, but then renamed her HMS Eclipse in 1804. She had a completely unremarkable career before the Navy sold her in 1807.
- ^ a b Demerliac (1999), p. 129.
- ^ a b c d e f Roche (2005), p. 473.
- ^ Winfield & Roberts (2015), p. 214.
- ^ Winfield (2008), p. 348.
- ^ Demerliac (1999), p. 140.
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