French frigate Cornélie (1797)
Appearance
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Name | Cornélie |
Launched | 19 September 1797 |
Captured | 14 June 1808 by Spain |
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Name | Cornélie |
Acquired | 1808 by capture |
Renamed | Cornelia |
Fate | Sold 21 October 1815 and broken up |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Virginie-class frigate |
Displacement | 1400 tonnes |
Length | 47.4 m (155 ft 6 in) |
Beam | 11.9 m (39 ft 1 in) |
Draught | 5.5 m (18 ft 1 in) |
Armament |
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Armour | Timber |
The Cornélie was a 40-gun Virginie-class frigate of the French Navy.
In April 1799, along with Vengeance and Sémillante, she fought against HMS St Fiorenzo and HMS Amelia.[1]
On 4 August 1803 Cornélie sortied from Toulon as part of a squadron of four frigates and some corvettes. Cornélie captured the schooner HMS Redbreast and the water transport that Redbreast was escorting from Malta to Admiral Nelson's fleet.[citation needed]
She took part in the Battle of Cape Finisterre and in the Battle of Trafalgar.[1]
On 14 June 1808, The Spanish captured a French squadron at Cádiz that included Cornélie. The Spaniards then brought her into Spanish service as Cornelia. She was sold at Havana on 21 October 1815 and broken up.[2]
Citations
[edit]References
[edit]- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. p. 129. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S. (2015). French warships in the age of sail, 1786-1861. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-184832-204-2.