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Vésuve-class gunbrig

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The Vésuve class was a class of seven 4-gun gunbrigs (bricks-canonniers).

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The Royal Navy captured three of the seven vessels in the class and took them into British service.

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Vésuve class (7 ships)

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Begun: February 1793
Launched: May 1793
Completed: June 1793
Fate: Captured by HMS Melampus and HMS Hebe on 3 July 1795. Commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Vesuve, sold in 1802
Builder: Lemarchand, Saint-Malo
Begun: March 1793
Launched: May 1793
Completed: June 1793
Fate: Captured in 1803 by boats from HMS Loire; sold in 1807
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Builder: Saint Malo
Begun: 1793
Launched: January 1794
Completed: February 1794
Fate: Struck in Saint Valéry en Caux in December 1798
Notes: Renamed Fantôme in May 1795
Builder: Saint Malo
Begun: 1792
Launched: September 1793
Completed: September 1793
Fate: Decommissioned in Brest in February 1810
Notes: renamed Canonnière n°14 in May 1801
Builder: Saint Malo
Begun: March 1793
Launched: August 1793
Completed: September 1793
Fate: Decommissioned on 31 March 1807
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Builder: Saint Malo
Begun: 1793
Launched: 1793
Completed: June 1793
Fate: Ran aground in combat against Lapwing, then destroyed by gunfire on 29 November 1796
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Notes

  1. At the time, brass 36-pounder carronades were generally obusiers de vaisseau.

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