French frigate Comète (1796)
Appearance
History | |
---|---|
![]() | |
Name | Comète |
Namesake | Comet |
Laid down | October 1794 |
Launched | 11 March 1796 |
In service | January 1798 |
Fate | Broken up in 1810 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Romaine-class frigate |
Displacement | 700 tonnes (690 long tons) |
Length | 45.5 m (149 ft 3 in) |
Beam | 11.8 m (38 ft 9 in) |
Draught | 5 m (16 ft 5 in) |
Propulsion | Sail |
Armament |
|
Armour | Timber |
Comète was a Romaine-class frigate of the French Navy. She took part in the Atlantic campaign of 1806 and in the Battle of San Domingo.
Construction
[edit]Comète was laid down at Le Havre, France, in October 1794 and launched on 11 March 1796. She entered service in January 1798.
Service history
[edit]On 19 February 1806, Comète, the frigate Félicité, and the corvette Diligente captured and burned the American vessel Lark, Moore, master, which was sailing from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Jamaica.[1][Note 1]
From June 1808, Comète served as a mast machine at Bayonne, France. She was broken up in 1810.
Notes
[edit]- ^ The report in Lloyd's List refers to the "brig Diligente". The French navy had a brig Diligent, but she was not in the area.
Citations
[edit]References
[edit]- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671–1870 (in French). Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 121. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.