French frigate Iphigénie (1777)
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| 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 |
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| Acquired: | August 1793 by capture |
| Captured: | December 1793 |
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| Name: | Iphigénie |
| Acquired: | December 1793 by capture |
| Captured: | February 1795 |
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| 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 |
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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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