Vésuve-class gunbrig
# Vésuve-class gunbrig

The Vésuve class was a class of seven 4-gun gunbrigs (bricks-canonniers).

The Royal Navy captured three of the seven vessels in the class and took them into British service.

## Vésuve class (7 ships)

* Vésuve

    Builder:
    Begun: February 1793
    Launched: May 1793
    Completed: June 1793
    Fate: Captured by HMS Melampus and HMS Hebe on 3 July 1795. Commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Vesuve, sold in 1802
* Volage

    Builder: Lemarchand, Saint-Malo
    Begun: March 1793
    Launched: May 1793
    Completed: June 1793
    Fate: Captured in 1803 by boats from HMS Loire; sold in 1807
* Cruelle

    Builder:
    Begun:
    Launched:
    Completed:
    Fate:
    Notes:
* Foudre

    Builder: Saint Malo
    Begun: 1793
    Launched: January 1794
    Completed: February 1794
    Fate: Struck in Saint Valéry en Caux in December 1798
    Notes: Renamed Fantôme in May 1795
* Hargneuse

    Builder: Saint Malo
    Begun: 1792
    Launched: September 1793
    Completed: September 1793
    Fate: Decommissioned in Brest in February 1810
    Notes: renamed Canonnière n°14 in May 1801
* Protectrice

    Builder: Saint Malo
    Begun: March 1793
    Launched: August 1793
    Completed: September 1793
    Fate: Decommissioned on 31 March 1807
    Notes:
* Vaillante

    Builder: Saint Malo
    Begun: 1793
    Launched: 1793
    Completed: June 1793
    Fate: Ran aground in combat against Lapwing, then destroyed by gunfire on 29 November 1796
