Hébé-class frigate

The Hébé class was a class of six 40-gun frigates of the French Navy, designed in 1781 by Jacques-Noël Sané.


 * Hébé
 * Builder: Saint Malo
 * Begun: December 1781
 * Launched: 25 June 1782
 * Completed: August 1782
 * Fate: Captured by British Navy on 4 September 1782. The British took her into service and in 1805 renamed her HMS Blonde. Hébé became the model for the British Leda-class frigates, the first of which was HMS Leda. Hébé, therefore, has the rare distinction of being the model for both a French and a British frigate class.


 * Vénus
 * Builder: Brest
 * Begun: November 1781
 * Launched: 14 July 1782
 * Completed: October 1782
 * Fate: wrecked on 31 December 1788 in the Indian Ocean.


 * Dryade
 * Builder: Saint Malo
 * Begun: 1782
 * Launched: 3 February 1783
 * Completed: April 1783
 * Fate: Retired in 1796; condemned 16 November 1801 and taken to pieces.


 * Proserpine
 * Builder: Brest
 * Begun: December 1784
 * Launched: 25 June 1785
 * Completed: August 1785
 * Fate: captured by British Navy on 13 June 1796. The British took her into service as HMS Amelia.


 * Sibylle
 * Builder: Toulon
 * Begun: April 1790
 * Launched: 30 July 1791
 * Completed: May 1792
 * Fate: captured by British Navy on 17 June 1794. The British took her into service as HMS Sybille.


 * Carmagnole
 * Builder: La Motte, Brest
 * Ordered: March 1792
 * Launched: 22 May 1793
 * Completed: July 1793
 * Fate: Renamed Rassurante 30 May 1795, but reverted to Carmagnole 24 February 1798; wrecked in a storm at Vlissingen on 9 November 1800.