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French frigate Iphigénie (1777)

History
French Navy EnsignFrance
Name: Iphigénie
Namesake: Iphigenia
Builder: Gilles Cambry, Lorient Dockyard, on the basis of plans by Léon-Michel Guignace
Laid down: February 1777
Launched: 16 October 1777
Completed: March 1778
Captured: By the British in August 1793
Royal Navy EnsignUK
Acquired: August 1793 by capture
Captured: December 1793
French Navy EnsignFrance
Name: Iphigénie
Acquired: December 1793 by capture
Captured: February 1795
Flag of Spain (1785-1873 and 1875-1931).svgSpain
Name: Ifigenia
Acquired: February 1795 by capture
Out of service: 1818
Fate: Wrecked
General characteristics
Class and type: Iphigénie-class frigate
Displacement: ~1150 tonnes
Length: 134 ft 0 in (40.8 m)
Beam: 34 ft 6 in (10.5 m)
Draught: 17 ft 6 in (5.3 m)
Sail plan: Full-rigged ship
Complement: 270-290
Armament:
  • 1778-92: 26 × 12-pounder long guns + 6 × 6-pounder long guns
  • 1792:As above + 1 or 2 mortars
  • 1794-5:As above, but with 2 × 36-pounder howitzers instead of the mortar(s)

Iphigénie was a 32-gun Iphigénie-class frigate of the French Navy, and the lead ship of her class. She was briefly in British hands after the Anglo-Spanish capture of Toulon in August 1793 but the French recaptured her December. The Spanish captured her in 1795 and her subsequent fate is unknown.

On 10 July 1777 Iphigénie, Captain Kersaint de Coëtnempren was part of the French fleet, under Louis Guillouet, comte d'Orvilliers. The fleet was in a fog and when the fog lifted, the French realised that a British vessel was among them. The French cutter Curieuse, of 10 guns and under the command of Captain Trolong du Rumain, chased HMS Lively and ordered her to lie to, which order Biggs declined. However, Iphigénie came up and ordered Biggs to sail Lively to the French admiral. Biggs was still arguing when Iphigénie fired a broadside. The broadside killed 12 British sailors; thereupon, Biggs struck. The French took Lively into service.

Between June and July 1778, Iphigénie was at Brest, being coppered. In December, Iphigénie captured the 18-gun sloop HMS Ceres off Saint Lucia. One year later Iphigénie took part in the Battle of Grenada.

In January–February 1782, French captain Armand de Kersaint led a squadron in Iphigénie that included two more frigates, four brigs, and a large cutter to recapture Demerara and Essequibo. The naval opposition consisted of a British squadron of three sloops and two brig sloops under the command of Commander William Tarhoudin in HMS Oronoque. The French were sighted on 30 January and Tarhoudin moved his squadron downriver. However, the French landed troops and as these moved towards Demerara, the British forces facing them retreated, forcing Tarhoudin to pull back his vessels also. On 1 February the British asked for terms of capitulation, with the actual capitulation taking place on 3 February.


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