Bonne Citoyenne-class corvette

The four Bonne Citoyenne-class corvettes were built to a design by Raymond-Antoine Hasan. All members of the class were flush-decked, but with a long topgallant forecastle. The corvettes were launched between 1794 and 1796, and the Royal Navy captured all four between 1796 and 1798.[1]

HMS Bonne Citoyenne towing the captured Furieuse; a print by Thomas Whitcombe
Class overview
Name: Bonne Citoyenne
Operators:  French Navy;  Royal Navy
Planned: 4
Completed: 4
Retired: 4
General characteristics [1]
Type:
Tonnage: 514 bm
Length:
  • 120 ft (37 m) (overall)
  • 100 ft (30.5 m) (keel)
Beam: 31 ft (9.4 m)
Depth of hold: 8 ft (2.4 m)
Sail plan: Full-rigged ship
Complement:
  • French service: 200
  • British service: 155
Armament:
  • French service:20 x 8-pounder guns
  • British service:
  • Upperdeck: 20 x 32-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 2 x 9-pounder guns + 2 x 12-pounder carronades

After the Royal Navy captured Bonne Citoyenne, the Admiralty used her lines as the basis for the Hermes-class post ships.

Ships
  • Bonne Citoyenne: launched 1794, captured 1796; as HMS Bonne Citoyenne sold 1819.
  • Perçante: launched 1795, captured 1796 and renamed HMS Jamaica; sold 1814.
  • Vaillante, launched 1796, captured 1798 and renamed HMS Danae, returned to French control by mutineers in 1801 and renamed Vaillante; sold 1801.
  • Gaieté, launched in 1797, captured the same year and commissioned as HMS Gaiete (also Gayette); sold in 1808.

Citations
  1. Winfield (2008), p. 233.

References
  • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
  • Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-246-7.
  • Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S. (2015). French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786–1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.
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