Pallas class frigate (1808)
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Pallas |
| Operators: |
 French Navy
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| Preceded by: | Hortense class |
| Subclasses: | Ariane |
| Planned: | 59 |
| Completed: | 54 |
| Cancelled: | 5 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Pallas-class frigate |
| Displacement: | 1080 tonnes |
| Length: | 46.93 m (154.0 ft) |
| Beam: | 11.91 m (39.1 ft) |
| Draught: | 5.9 m (19 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 1,950 m2 (21,000 sq ft) of sail |
| Complement: | 326 |
| Armament: |
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| Armour: | Timber |
The Pallas class constituted the standard design of 40-gun frigates of the French Navy during the Napoleonic Empire period. Jacques-Noël Sané designed them in 1805, as a development of his seven-ship Hortense class of 1802, and the French government ordered in total 62 frigates to this new design. Of these some 54 were completed, although ten of these were begun for the French Navy in shipyards within the Netherlands or Italy, which were then under French occupation; they were completed for the Netherlands or Austrian navies after 1813.
As noted below, all three vessels launched in 1814 were never added to the French Navy, as they were completed for the Dutch after the liberation of the Netherlands.
Six of the following were completed for the French Navy after the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy; the other six, laid down in Rotterdam and Venice while those cities were under French control, were completed for the Netherlands and Austrian Navies respectively.
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