French frigate Régénérée (1794)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Alexandria.
Régénérée was a 40-gun Cocarde-class frigate of the French Navy. The British captured her in 1801 at the fall of Alexandria, named her HMS Alexandria, sailed her back to Britain, but never commissioned her. She was broken up in 1804.
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Battle of Régénérée and Vertu against HMS Brilliant | |
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France | |
Name | Régénérée |
Ordered | 16 May 1793 |
Builder | Saint Malo |
Laid down | September 1793 |
Launched | 1 November 1794 |
Completed | April 1795 |
Captured | 27 September 1801 |
United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Alexandria |
Acquired | 27 September 1801 |
Fate | Broken up 1804 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | Cocarde-class frigate |
Type | 40-gun frigate |
Displacement | 1,190 (tons; French) |
Tons burthen | 895 20⁄94(bm) |
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Beam | 37 ft 6 in (11.43 m) |
Depth of hold | 11 ft 8 in (3.56 m) |
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Armament | |
Armour | Timber |
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