The ''Galathée'' class was a type of 32-gun frigates of the
French Navy
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, designed by Raymond-Antoine Haran, with 26 × 12-pounder and 6 × 6-pounder guns. six units were built in all, seeing service during the
Naval operations in the American Revolutionary War, and later in the
French Revolutionary Wars
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. The
Royal Navy
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captured and took into service five of the six, the sixth being wrecked early in the French Revolutionary Wars.
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''Galathée''
:Builder: Rochefort
:Ordered:
:Launched: 1779
:Fate: wrecked in 1795
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''Railleuse''
:Builder: Bordeaux
:Ordered:
:Launched: 1779
:Fate: sold as a privateer and captured in 1804 by the Royal Navy. Taken into British service as HMS ''Antigua''.
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''Fleur de Lys''
:Builder: Rochefort
:Ordered:
:Launched: 1785
:Fate: renamed to ''Pique'', captured by the Royal Navy and taken into British service as HMS ''Pique'' in 1796
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''Charente Inférieure''
:Builder: Rochefort
:Ordered:
:Launched: 1793
:Fate: renamed ''Tribune'' in February 1794, captured by British Navy in 1796 and taken into British service as HMS ''Tribune'', being wrecked the next year
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''Républicaine française''
:Builder: Bordeaux
:Ordered:
:Launched: 1794
:Fate: renamed ''Renommée'' in 1795; captured by British Navy in 1796, becoming HMS ''Renommee''. Broken up 1810
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''Décade Française''
:Builder: Pierre Guibert, Bordeaux
:Ordered:
:Launched: 1794
:Fate: Renamed ''Décade'' in 1795; captured by British navy in 1798, becoming HMS ''Decade''. Sold 1811
References
*Winfield, Rif & Stephen S Roberts (2015) ''French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786–1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates''. (Seaforth Publishing).
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Frigate classes