Jacques-Noël Sané [SEP] date of death
Jacques-Noël Sané
Jacques-Noël Sané (18 February 1740, Brest – 22 August 1831, Paris) was a French naval engineer. He was the conceptor of standardised designs for ships of the line and frigates fielded by the French Navy in the 1780s, which served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars and in some cases remained in service into the 1860s. Captured ships of his design were commissioned in the Royal Navy and even copied.
His achievements earned Sané the nickname of "naval Vauban"
Noël Sané became predominant and – while other classes of frigate were built – Sané designs were used for the vast majority of frigates built thereafter up to 1814.
- "Aigle", (36- or 40-gun privateer frigate design of 1779 by Jacques-Noël Sané, with 26 x 18-pounders and 10 or 14 x 8-pounders; launched on 11 February 1780 at Saint-Malo, purchased by the French Navy in April 1782) - wrecked in combat on the Delaware River in September 1782, refloated by the British and taken into