Sibylle-class frigate
# Sibylle-class frigate

The Sibylle class was a class of five 32-gun sail frigates designed by Jacques-Noël Sané and built for the French Navy in the late 1770s. They carried 26 x 12-pounder guns on the upper deck and 6 x 8-pounder guns on the forecastle and quarter deck.

    Builder: Brest
    Begun: April 1777
    Launched: 1 September 1777
    Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy in February 1783, broken up in 1784
    Builder: Saint Malo
    Begun: October 1778
    Launched: 31 May 1779
    Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy in December 1797, becoming HMS Nereide; retaken by the French Navy in August 1810, but destroyed at the Battle of Grand Port in December 1810.
    Builder: Nantes
    Begun: October 1778
    Launched: 11 August 1779
    Fate: Wrecked in Chesapeake Bay in November 1793.
    Builder: Saint Malo
    Begun: December 1778
    Launched: 18 January 1779
    Fate: Lost in a tempest on 17 March 1780 off St Lucia
    Builder: Nantes
    Begun: December 1778
    Launched: 25 October 1779
    Fate: Broken up in 1797.

## Citations

* ↑ Roche (2005), p. 415.
* ↑ Roche (2005), p. 325.
* ↑ Roche (2005), p. 201.
* ↑ Roche (2005), p. 150.
* ↑ Roche (2005), p. 173.
