French frigate Aigle (1782)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Aigle and French ship Aigle.
The French frigate Aigle was launched in 1780 as a privateer. The French Navy purchased her in 1782, but the British captured her that same year and took her into the Royal Navy as the 38-gun fifth rate HMS Aigle. During the French Revolutionary Wars she served primarily in the Mediterranean, where she was wrecked in 1798.
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Aigle in 1782. | |
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France | |
Name | Aigle |
Namesake | Eagle |
Builder | Dujardin, Saint Malo, plans by Jacques-Noël Sané |
Laid down | 1779 |
Launched | 11 February 1780 |
Acquired | April 1782 by purchase |
Fate | Captured 15 September 1782 |
Great Britain | |
Name | HMS Aigle |
Acquired | September 1782 by capture |
Commissioned | December 1782 |
Fate | Wrecked 19 August 1798 |
General characteristics [1][2] | |
Displacement | 1200 tons (French) |
Length | |
Beam | 39 ft 3 in (12.0 m) |
Draught | 5.4 m (17.7 ft) |
Propulsion | Sail |
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Armament |
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Armour | Timber |
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