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French ship Africaine

Summary

Five ships of the French Navy have carried the name Africaine:

List edit

  • Africaine, a felucca (1664)[1]
  • Africaine, a Preneuse-class frigate (1798–1816)
  • Africaine, the renamed Ems, was a 44-gun frigate wrecked in 1822[2]
  • French bateau Africaine (1827) (1827–1833), was a balancelle or bateau purchased at Toulon in 1827, decommissioned in 1833, and struck in 1835.[3]
  • Africaine (1839–72), a 40-gun frigate that also served as a transport, convict transport, and service craft. She was struck from the rolls in 1867 while serving as a storage hulk at Martinique. She was broken up in 1872.[4]
  • Africaine, an Aurore-class submarine, c.1940s to 1963

Other edit

  • Africaine, a French 20-gun ship whose seizure by a British privateer in 1804 off Charleston gave rise to an important court case that helped define the extent of U.S. territorial waters.

See also edit

Citations edit

  1. ^ Roche (2005), p. 24.
  2. ^ Winfield & Roberts (2015), p. 153.
  3. ^ Winfield & Roberts (2015), p. 308.
  4. ^ Winfield & Roberts (2015), p. 158.

References edit

  • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
  • Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S. (2015). French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786–1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.
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