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Vésuve-class gunbrig
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The Vésuve class was a class of seven 4-gun gunbrigs (bricks-canonniers).
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)
- Builder:
- 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
- Builder:
- Begun:
- Launched:
- Completed:
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- Notes:
- Foudre[5]
- 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
- Hargneuse[6]
- 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
- Protectrice[7]
- Builder: Saint Malo
- Begun: March 1793
- Launched: August 1793
- Completed: September 1793
- Fate: Decommissioned on 31 March 1807
- Notes:
- 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
- At the time, brass 36-pounder carronades were generally obusiers de vaisseau.
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