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Sardine was a corvette of the French Navy, launched in 1771. The Royal Navy captured her at the Siege of Toulon but the French retook her when the Anglo-Spanish force retreated. The Royal Navy captured her again in 1796. She then served as HMS Sardine until the Royal Navy sold her in 1806.
HMS Echo was a 24-gun sixth-rate of the Royal Navy, in active service between 1758 and 1764, during the Seven Years' War.. Originally the French corvette L ' Echo, she was captured by HMS Juno in 1758 and refitted as a privateer hunter.
French corvette Diligent (1781) French corvette Diligente (1794) French corvette Dragon; E. French ship Éole (1799) HMS Esperance (1795) French corvette Etna (1795)
See list of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy for the full list. ... (1770) HMS Kingfisher (1782) HMS Kingfisher (1804) L. HMS Lightning (1806)
After more than half a century, the category of corvette was revived during World War II to designate a smaller form of escort vessel than the existing sloops. It was thus not comparable with the pre-1887 corvettes in the Royal Navy. Two classes of wartime corvette were designed and built in considerable numbers (see separate articles):
The Etna 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. [2] Four separate commercial shipbuilders were involved in their construction by contract - including André-François Normand, Courtois and Denise at Honfleur, and Fouache at Le Havre (two ships), while the sixth vessel was built by ...
Corvettes of the Cold War (3 C, 44 P) V. Victorian-era corvettes (2 C, 2 P) W. World War II corvettes (5 C, 1 P) This page was last edited on 27 March 2013, at 19: ...
Born the fourth boy of an eight-child, old-but-poor family from Normandy, Marigny was destined to an ecclesiastic career; he was soon sent to Sées seminary.However, his temperament inclined him more to adventure; and at age 14 he escaped the seminary to find refuge with his older brother, Augustin Etienne Gaspard Bernard de Marigny, who was a Garde-Marine in Rochefort.