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During the First French Empire, 24-pounders would also arm Type 1 Model Towers for coastal defence. In the Royal Navy, the 24-pounder was similarly used on some heavy frigates, which carried 26 guns. Fourth-rate ships carried 22 on their secondary batteries, and third-rates carried 32. First-rates carried thirty-four 24-pounders on their middle ...
The American Revolution saw the emergence of new fifth rates of 36 or 38 guns which carried a main battery of 18-pounder guns, and were thus known as "heavy" frigates, while the French Revolutionary War brought about the introduction of a few 24-pounder gun armed frigates. In the 1830s, new types emerged with a main battery of 32-pounder guns.
Pélerine, (36-gun privateer frigate designed by Jean-Joseph Ginoux, with 4 × 12-pounders on the lower deck, a main armament of 24 × 8-pounders on the gun deck and 8 × 6-pounders above; purchased at the time of her launch at Le Havre in December 1757) - renamed Aréthuse 1758, captured by the British Navy 1759 and renamed HMS Arethusa.
To cope with the heavy American 24-pounder frigates of the Constitution-type, the Admiralty decided to build a batch of new 24-pounder frigates. During the long war with France , the standard British frigate was of about 1,000 tons and armed with a main battery of only 18-pounders, no match for the big US ships.
30 × 24-pounder guns 22 × 24-pounder carronades Pallada ( Russian : Паллада ) was a sail frigate of the Imperial Russian Navy , most noted for its service as flagship of Vice Admiral Yevfimy Putyatin during his visit to Japan in 1853, which later resulted in the signing of the Treaty of Shimoda of 1855, establishing formal relations ...
The result was a frigate of 44 guns, with a primary gun deck armament of twenty-six 24-pounder cannon (most frigates of the time were too lightly built to handle such heavy guns, so were armed with 18-pounders).
They constituted one of the earliest attempts at building a frigate armed with 24-pounders on the artillery deck, rather than the 18-pounders typical of the day. The attempt was unfruitful, and the ships were commissioned armed with old 18-pounders. Several further such attempts were made later with the Résistance, Forte and Romaine classes.
The Romaine class was a class of nine frigates of the French Navy, designed in 1794 by Pierre-Alexandre Forfait. They were originally designated as "bomb-frigates" (Fr. frégate-bombarde) and were intended to carry a main armament of twenty 24-pounder guns and a 12-inch mortar mounted on a turntable in front of the mizzen mast.