French_ship_Africaine
French ship Africaine
List of ships with the same or similar names
Not to be confused with French ship Africain.
Five ships of the French Navy have carried the name Africaine:
- Africaine, a felucca (1664)[1]
- Africaine, a Preneuse-class frigate (1798–1816)
- Africaine, the renamed Ems, was a 44-gun frigate wrecked in 1822[2]
- French bateau Africaine (1827) (1827–1833), was a balancelle or bateau purchased at Toulon in 1827, decommissioned in 1833, and struck in 1835.[3]
- Africaine (1839–72), a 40-gun frigate that also served as a transport, convict transport, and service craft. She was struck from the rolls in 1867 while serving as a storage hulk at Martinique. She was broken up in 1872.[4]
- Africaine, an Aurore-class submarine, c.1940s to 1963
- Africaine, a French 20-gun ship whose seizure by a British privateer in 1804 off Charleston gave rise to an important court case that helped define the extent of U.S. territorial waters.
- French ship Africain - different spelling
- HMS Africaine, two ships of the Royal Navy
- Roche (2005), p. 24.
- Winfield & Roberts (2015), p. 153.
- Winfield & Roberts (2015), p. 308.
- Winfield & Roberts (2015), p. 158.
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S. (2015). French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786–1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.
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