Armide-class frigate
# Armide-class frigate

The Armide class was a class of 44-gun frigates of the French Navy, designed by Pierre Roland. A highly detailed and accurate model of Flore, one of the units of the class, is on display at Paris naval museum, originally part of the Trianon model collection.

## Vessels in class

* Armide

    Builder: Rochefort Dockyard
    Begun: 16 November 1802
    Launched: 24 April 1804
    Completed: May 1804
    Fate: captured by British Navy, 25 September 1806.
* Minerve

    Builder: Rochefort Dockyard
    Begun: 11 May 1804
    Launched: 9 September 1805
    Completed: November 1805
    Fate: captured by British Navy, 25 September 1806.
* Pénélope

    Builder: Bordeaux
    Begun: 12 February 1804
    Launched: 28 October 1806
    Completed: January 1807
    Fate: broken up, after November 1829.
* Flore

    Builder: Rochefort Dockyard
    Begun: 1 July 1804
    Launched: 11 November 1806
    Completed: March 1807
    Fate: wrecked, 1811.
* Amphitrite

    Builder: Cherbourg Dockyard
    Begun: August 1806
    Launched: 11 April 1808
    Completed: July 1808
    Fate: burnt, 3 February 1809, to avoid capture.
* Niémen

    Builder: Bordeaux
    Begun: May 1807
    Launched: 8 November 1808
    Completed: January 1809
    Fate: captured by British Navy, 6 April 1809.
* Saale (ex Andromède)

    Builder: Rochefort Dockyard
    Begun: 10 December 1806
    Launched: 28 October 1810
    Completed: February 1811
    Fate: deleted, 1821 and broken up.
* Alcmène

    Builder: Cherbourg Dockyard
    Begun: 4 July 1810
    Launched: 3 October 1811
    Completed: March 1812
    Fate: captured by British Navy, 16 January 1814.
* Circé

    Builder: Rochefort Dockyard
    Begun: February 1810
    Launched: 15 December 1811
    Completed: March 1812
    Fate: deleted, 1844 and broken up.
* Androméde

    Builder: Bayonne
    Begun: 22 June 1808
    Launched: not launched
    Completed: cancelled April 1811
    Fate: never reached launch stage.
* Emeraude

    Builder: Bayonne
    Begun: 22 June 1808
    Launched: not launched
    Completed: cancelled April 1811
    Fate: never reached launch stage.
* Cornélie

    Builder: Bordeaux
    Begun: January 1812
    Launched: capsized on stocks 10 March 1814
    Completed:
    Fate: never reached launch stage.
* Antigone

    Builder: Bordeaux
    Begun: January 1812
    Launched: 13 March 1816
    Completed: May 1816
    Fate: Deleted 3 August 1828 and hulked
* Cléopatre

    Builder: Cherbourg Dockyard
    Begun: 10 March 1812
    Launched: 1 April 1817
    Completed: June 1817
    Fate: Deleted 30 September 1823 and broken up
* Magicienne

    Builder: Rochefort Dockyard
    Begun: January 1813
    Launched: 11 April 1823
    Completed:May 1823
    Fate: Wrecked 29 November 1840 in the Philippines

## Sources and references

* Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671–1870. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
* Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S (2015). French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786—1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.
