French frigate Iphigénie (1777)

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Name: Iphigénie
Captured: By the Spanish on 14 February 1795
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Name: Ifigenia
Out of service: 1818
General characteristics
Class and type: Iphigénie class frigate
Displacement: 620 tonnes
Length: 134 ft
Beam: 34 ft 6 in
Draught: 5.5 metres
Propulsion: Sail
Armament:

32 guns:
26 x 12-pounder long guns
6 x 6-pounder long guns

Several had 2 or 4 x 36-pounder obusiers added
Armour: Timber

The Iphigénie was a 32-gun Iphigénie class frigate of the French Navy, lead ship of her class.

In April 1778, she captured the 18-gun sloop HMS Ceres off Saint Lucia, and one year later she took part in the Battle of Grenada.

On 14 February 1795, she was captured in the Gulf of Roses by the Spanish Admiral Juan de Lángara and brought into Spanish service as Ifigenia.

References

  • Dictionnaire de la flotte de guerre française, Jean-Michel Roche.