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Napoleonic Pallas-class frigate From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ariane was a 40-gun frigate of the French Navy, lead ship of her class.
![]() Clorinde, sister-ship of French frigate Ariane (1811) | |
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Name | Ariane |
Namesake | Ariana |
Builder | Nantes |
Laid down | 1807 |
Launched | 1811 |
Commissioned | 9 January 1812 |
Fate | Ran aground and scuttled 22 May 1812 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Ariane-class frigate |
Length | 45.5 m (149 ft 3 in) |
Beam | 12.36 m (40 ft 7 in) |
Draught | 5.9 m (19 ft 4 in) |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship, 1,950 m2 (21,000 sq ft) |
Complement | 325 |
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Ariane was commissioned on 9 January 1812 under Captain Jean-Baptiste-Henri Féretier.
Between 21 February 1812 and 17 May, a three-vessel French squadron consisting of the frigates Ariane and Andromaque, and the brig Mameluck engaged in commerce raiding in the Atlantic. They captured numerous British and American vessels and burnt them all, except for Patent, M'Master, master, and Woodrup, Sims, master. They made a cartel of Patent, putting their British prisoners aboard her; she arrived at Plymouth on 24 May. The American prisoners the French put on Woodrop, which they sent to America.[1]
Returning to Lorient, the squadron met the British 74-gun ship-of-the-line HMS Northumberland, Captain Henry Hotham. In the ensuing action of 22 May 1812, the two frigates ran aground trying to escape their much stronger opponent; their crews set them afire to prevent the frigates's capture.[2]
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