Charmante-class frigate

The Charmante class was a group of five 32-gun/12-pounder frigates of the French Navy, built during the late 1770s at Brest (lead ship) Nantes (2 ships) and Saint Malo (2 ships). They were designed by Jean-Denis Chevillard. Of the five ships, two were wrecked, two were captured by the British, and one by the Spanish.


 * Charmante
 * Builder: Brest
 * Ordered:
 * Laid down: April 1777
 * Launched: 30 August 1777
 * Completed: January 1778
 * Fate: Wrecked on the Chaussée de Sein on 24 March 1780


 * Junon
 * Builder: Rochefort
 * Ordered:
 * Laid down: September 1777
 * Launched: March 1778
 * Completed: May 1778
 * Fate: Wrecked by the Great Hurricane of 1780 off Saint Vincent on 11 October 1780


 * Gracieuse
 * Builder: Rochefort
 * Ordered:
 * Laid down: November 1785
 * Launched: 18 May 1787
 * Completed: May 1788
 * Fate: Renamed Unité on 28 September 1793. Capturd by the British on 11 April 1796, recomissionned as HMS Unite, sold in 1802


 * Inconstante
 * Builder: Rochefort
 * Ordered:
 * Laid down: January 1789
 * Launched: 9 September 1790
 * Completed: February 1791
 * Fate: Captured by HMS Penelope and Iphigenia on 25 November 1793 off Saint Domingue and recommissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Convert


 * Hélène
 * Builder: Rochefort
 * Ordered:
 * Laid down: 1789
 * Launched: 18 May 1791
 * Completed: June 1792
 * Fate: Captured by the Spanish on 19 February 1793 during the French expedition to Sardinia and recommissioned in the Spanish Navy as Sirena