Magicienne was a frigate of the French Navy, lead ship of her class. The British captured her in 1781 and she served with the Royal Navy until her crew...
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The Magicienne class was a class of twelve fifth rate 32-gun frigates of the French Navy, each with a main battery of 26 × 12-pounder long guns, and with...
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(British and French prototypes were constructed in 1858), armoured frigates were developed as powerful ironclad warships, the term frigate was used because...
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fifth rate 1807, designed by John Henslow on the basis of the French Magicienne of 1778 HMS Bucephalus 32-gun fifth rate 1808, designed by William Rule...
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32-gun copper-hulled, frigate of the French Navy, lead ship of her class. Sibylle took part in the Battle of Ushant on 27 July 1778, under Kerhouan-Mahé...
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HMS Lutine (1779) (redirect from French frigate Lutine (1779))
built as a French Magicienne-class frigate with 32 guns, and was launched at Toulon in 1779. During the French Revolution, Lutine came under French Royalist...
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This article is a list of French naval frigates during the Age of Sail, from the middle of the 17th century (when the type emerged) until the close of...
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was a 32-gun Concorde-class frigate of the French Navy. Designed for speed, she was one of the first ships of the French Navy to receive a copper sheathing...
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The Sérieuse was a Magicienne class frigate of the French Navy, launched in 1779. In 1781, Sérieuse ferried soldiers after the Invasion of Minorca. She...
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Action of 2 January 1783 (category Naval battles of the Anglo-French War (1778–1783))
between a Royal Navy frigate HMS Magicienne and a French frigate Sibylle went on for nearly two hours, but in that time both frigates were reduced to wrecks...
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