French frigate Comète (1796)

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Career (France) French Navy Ensign
Name: Comète
Namesake: Comet
Builder: Le Havre
Laid down: October1794
Launched: 11 March 1796
In service: January 1798
Fate: Broken up in 1810
General characteristics
Class and type: Romaine class frigate
Displacement: 700 tonnes
Length: 45.5 metres
Beam: 11.8 metres
Draught: 5 metres
Propulsion: Sail
Armament:

40 guns:
24 24-pounders

16 8-pounders
Armour: Timber

The Comète was a Romaine class frigate of the French Navy.

She took part in the Atlantic campaign of 1806 and in the Battle of San Domingo.

From June 1808, she was used as a mast machine in Bayonne, and was eventually broken up in 1810.

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