French corvette Naïade (1780)
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Naïade was a 20-gun Coquette-class corvette. She took part in the Indian theatre of the Anglo-French War with the squadron under Suffren. The British Royal Navy captured her in 1783 but never commissioned her; it sold her in 1784.
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Name | Naïade |
Ordered | 23 July 1779 [1] |
Builder | Toulon [1] |
Laid down | July 1779 [1] |
Launched | 21 December 1779 [1] |
Commissioned | April 1780 [1] |
Captured | 1805 |
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Name | HMS Naiad |
Fate | Sold 1784 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Coquette-class corvette |
Type | corvette |
Tons burthen | 400 tonnes |
Length | 38.7 metres |
Beam | 9.9 metres |
Draught | 4.9 metres |
Armament | 18 × 8-pounder long guns |
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