French frigate Harmonie (1796)

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Name: Harmonie
General characteristics
Class and type: Virginie class frigate
Displacement: 720 tonnes
Length: 47.4 metres
Beam: 11.9 metres
Draught: 5.5 metres
Armament: 44 guns
Armour: Timber

The Harmonie was a 44-gun Virginie class frigate of the French Navy.

She was beached and scuttled by fire at Saint Domingue on 16 April 1797 to avoid captured by HMS Thunderer and HMS Valiant

References

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