Forfait was an unarmored screw corvette built for the French Navy in the late 1850s that entered service in 1860. She saw service in the French intervention...
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of the French Navy have borne the name Forfait: French corvette Forfait, a screw corvette launched in 1859 and sunk in a collision in 1875 French cruiser Forfait...
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hydrographer, politician, and Minister of the Navy French corvette Forfait, a French Navy screw corvette that entered service in 1860 and was sunk in a collision...
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HMS Surprise (1796) (redirect from French corvette Unité (1794))
Pierre-Alexandre Forfait designed Unité, the name ship for a class of corvette. Although the French initially rated Unité as a corvette, the ships of her...
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was a 20-gun ship-corvette of the French Navy. Originally a British merchantman, she was built in England, and captured by the French and taken into naval...
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Jeanne d'Arc was a wooden-hulled armored corvette built for the French Navy in the late 1860s. She was named for Joan of Arc, a Roman Catholic saint and...
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Baudin. She was constructed, and probably designed, by Pierre-Alexandre Forfait. Her plans are dated 14 January 1793. She was launched in 1795 as La Menaçante...
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Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait (21 April 1752 – 8 November 1807) was a French engineer, hydrographer and politician, and Minister of the Navy. Born to...
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Designed as a fluyt, or "corvette of burden", Seine was built under the direction of Bernard Chariot upon plans drawn by Forfait and revised by Sané, with...
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At 12:00 noon the admiral commanding the squadron ordered the screw corvette Forfait, operating as a dispatch vessel, to pass astern of Magenta to receive...
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cancelled and war broke out between France and Great Britain. En route for Saint-Domingue with the 16-gun corvette Mignonne, she encountered a British...
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frigate of the Gloire class in the French Navy, built to an 1802 design by Pierre-Alexandre Forfait. She served with the French Navy from her completion in 1804...
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Var was a corvette of the French Navy, launched in 1806 as the name-ship of her class of flutes. She served as a storeship until the British captured her...
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an 18-gun Belliqueuse-class brig-corvette of the French Navy, built to a design by Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait, and launched in 1794 at Honfleur...
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class was a class of six 16 or 18-gun corvettes with a flat hull, designed by Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait and his pupil Charles-Henri Tellier. Four...
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frigates built for the French East India Company (Compagnie des Indes) unless the latter were subsequently acquired by the French Navy. Note that throughout...
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Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait and launched on 1 March 1805. She was put into service in September. She departed from Nantes in June 1805 for Fort-de-France to carry...
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Conquet to Brest. In May 1795 the French Navy renamed Brave to Arrogante, and changed her classification from corvette-canonnière to canonnière. On 21 April...
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2024 24 Hours of Le Mans (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
Mercier, Laurent (30 May 2024). "Doriane Pin forfait pour les 24 Heures du Mans !". Endurance-Info (in French). Retrieved 30 May 2024. Kilbey, Stephen (26...
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HMS Guerriere (1806) (redirect from French frigate Guerrière (1800))
Guerrière was a 38-gun frigate of the French Navy, designed by Forfait. The British captured her and recommissioned her as HMS Guerriere. She is most famous...
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Alma-class ironclad (redirect from Alma-class corvette)
Alma-class ironclads were a group of seven wooden-hulled, armored corvettes built for the French Navy in the mid to late 1860s. Three of the ships attempted...
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The vessels were probably built to a design by Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait. In 1796 she was under the command of Enseigne de vaisseau non entretenu...
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sold in 1801. The Belliqueuse-class of brig-corvettes were built to a design by Pierre-Alexander-Laurent Forfait. The class was ill-fated. All five fell into...
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Colombe had been built as a one-off to plans by Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait that Pierre Ozanne had modified. She had two masts and was flat-bottomed...
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a French flotilla of 14 vessels carrying provisions and stores to the French fleet at Brest, and under the escort of the 18-gun fluyt (or corvette en...
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Forfait. The Royal Navy captured her in 1806 and took her into service as HMS Observateur. She participated in two actions, one for the French Navy...
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she served as the flagship of a squadron that also included the cruisers Forfait, Lapérouse, and Limier, the gunboats Pique, Chacal, and Capricorne, and...
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2010 24 Hours of Le Mans (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
Claude (5 April 2010). "La Dome-Judd S102 Forfait! Maj" [The Dome-Judd S102 Forfeit! Update] (in French). Endurance-Info. Archived from the original...
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Louis-René Levassor de Latouche Tréville (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
19 August 1804) was a French Navy officer, politician and nobleman who served in the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic...
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Bordelais (1798 ship) (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
Bourdelais, or Bordolois), launched in 1799, was a privateer corvette from Bordeaux, France. She took part in three campaigns before HMS Révolutionnaire...
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