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.


 * Sibylle
 * Builder: Brest
 * Begun: April 1777
 * Launched: 1 September 1777
 * Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy in February 1783, broken up in 1784


 * Néréide
 * 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.


 * Fine
 * Builder: Nantes
 * Begun: October 1778
 * Launched: 11 August 1779
 * Fate: Wrecked in Chesapeake Bay in November 1793.


 * Diane
 * Builder: Saint Malo
 * Begun: December 1778
 * Launched: 18 January 1779
 * Fate: Lost in a tempest on 17 March 1780 off St Lucia


 * Émeraude
 * Builder: Nantes
 * Begun: December 1778
 * Launched: 25 October 1779
 * Fate: Broken up in 1797.