Abeille-class brig
1/36th scale model of Cygne, on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Abeille |
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| In commission: | 1800 - 1847 |
| Completed: | 19 |
| Cancelled: | 2 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 350 tonnes |
| Length: | 32 metres |
| Beam: | 8.7 metres |
| Draught: | 3.5 metres |
| Sail plan: | Brig, 750 m2 of sail |
| Complement: | 84 men |
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| Armour: | Timber |
The Abeille class was a type of 16-gun brig-corvette of the French Navy, designed by François Pestel with some units refined by Pierre-Jacques-Nicolas Rolland. They were armed with either 24-pounder carronades, or a mixture of light 6-pounder long guns and lighter carronades. 21 ships of this type were built between 1801 and 1812, and served in the Napoleonic Wars.
The four first ships were ordered in bulk on 24 December 1800, but two (Mouche, Serin) could not be completed due to shortags of timbers. As the forerunner of the series, Abeille, is not always identified as such in British sources, the type is sometimes referred to as the Sylphe class, after Sylphe, which served as model for subsequent constructions.
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