Jean Bart (1793)

The Jean Bart was in April 1793 in Saint-Malo on keel laid Corvette of the French Navy . The ship entered service in October 1793. It was 28.6 m long and 8.9 m wide, displaced 270 tons and had 18 cannons. It served in the English Channel , the North Sea and the Atlantic, where it sailed as far as New York.

The Jean Bart was to be renamed Installée in May 1795 , but that never happened . On March 29, 1795, it was captured by the British frigates HMS Cerberus (1794, 32 guns) and HMS Santa Margarita (1779, 36 guns) in the English Channel and then taken over as a sloop with 16 guns under the name HMS Arab in the Royal Navy . However, her career in the British Navy did not last long, as she was shipwrecked on June 10, 1796 at the Glénan Islands .

Web links

• http://www.netmarine.net/bat/fregates/jeanbart/ancien.htm
• http://www.ageofnelson.org/MichaelPhillips/info.php?ref=1967

literature

• James Joseph Colledge and Ben Warlow: Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy (new edition 2006), Chatham, London, ISBN 9781861762818
• Rif Winfield: British Warships of the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. 2007, ISBN 1-86176-295-X .