NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Surveillante			Arsenal de Lorient	12.9.1823	29.7.1825	9/1825	stricken 8.1844
Belle Gabrielle, 8.1830- Indépendante			Arsenal de Cherbourg	13.4.1824	28.6.1828	8/2828	stricken 10.1860
Melpomène			Arsenal de Cherbourg	17.5.1825	28.7.1828	2/1830	stricken 3.1845
Herminie			Arsenal de Lorient	1825	25.8.1828	10/1828	wrecked 3.12.1838
Belle Poule			Arsenal de Cherbourg	1.4.1828	26.3.1834	1834	transport 1.1852, frigate 1.1856, powder storage vessel 6.1859
Sémillante			Arsenal de Lorient	19.3.1827	6.2.1841	3/1845	wrecked 16.2.1855
Andromaque			Arsenal de Lorient	29.5.1827	8.3.1841	1/1854	transport 1859, stricken 8.1869
Forte			Arsenal de Cherbourg	5.6.1829	16.9.1841	12/1841	transport 1859, frigate 1864, stricken 1.1868
Pallas			Arsenal de Lorient - Caudan	3.6.1848	---	---	built as screw frigate since 1859

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	2558
Displacement full, t
Length, m	54.4 pp
Breadth, m	14.5
Draught, m	6.59
No of shafts
Machinery	sails
Power, h. p.
Max speed, kts
Fuel, t
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	Surveillante (1830): 30 x 1 - 165/17 30pdr No.1 SBML, 28 x 1 - 163/8 30pdr SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 121/20 12pdr SBML Melpomène (1830): 30 x 1 - 165/17 30pdr No.1 SBML, 28 x 1 - 163/8 30pdr SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 139/18 18pdr SBML Belle Gabrielle (1830): 30 x 1 - 165/17 30pdr No.1 SBML, 26 x 1 - 163/8 30pdr SBML carronades, 4 x 1 - 139/18 18pdr SBML Belle Poule: 4 x 1 - 223/11 No.1 shell SBML, 26 x 1 - 165/17 30pdr No.1 SBML, 24 x 1 - 163/8 30pdr SBML carronades, 6 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML Andromaque, Forte: 4 x 1 - 223/11 No.1 shell SBML, 26 x 1 - 165/17 30pdr No.1 SBML, 26 x 1 - 163/8 30pdr SBML carronades, 4 x 1 - 163/13 shell SBML
Complement	513

Project history

30pdr frigates (1st rank from 1824), 60 guns. Wooden hull.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Herminie wrecked at Bermuda 3.12.1838. Sémillante wrecked in a storm in the Strait of Bonifacio 16.2.1855, used as troop transport with 710 lost.