French Fifth Rate frigate 'La Dédaigneuse' (1798)

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La Dédaigneuse
Nominal Guns	40	BWAS-1793
Nationality	République Française
Operator	State Navy
Keel Laid Down	6.1794	BWAS-1793
Launched	1798	BWAS-1793
First Commissioned	4.1799	BWAS-1793
How acquired	Purpose built	BWAS-1793
Shipyard	Bayonne - Aquitaine	BWAS-1793
Ship Class	Patriote Class (1794)	BWAS-1793
Designed by	Raymond-Antoine HaranFrench Designer Ship Builder	BWAS-1793
Constructor	Raymond-Antoine HaranFrench Designer Ship Builder	BWAS-1793
Category	Fifth Rate	BWAS-1793
National Rate	Troisième Rang	BWAS-1793
Ship Type	Frigate	BWAS-1793
Sailing Rig	Ship Rigged	BWAS-1793
Captured	28.1.1801	BWAS-1793
Becomes	British Fifth Rate frigate 'Dedaigneuse' (1801) (36) 1801-1823 British 36 Gun 5th Rate Frigate

Dimensions

DimensionMeasurementTypeMetric EquivalentBWAS-1793
Length of Gundeck143' 10 ½"Imperial Feet43.5991
Length of Keel119' 9 ½"Imperial Feet36.2839
Breadth37' 6 ¼"Imperial Feet11.284
Depth in Hold11' 9"Imperial Feet3.5814
Burthen897 ³⁄₉₄Tons BM

Armament

1798Broadside Weight = 204 French Livre (220.1568 lbs 99.858 kg)E-WIKI
Upper Gun Deck28 French 12-Pounder
Quarterdeck/Forecastle12 French 6-Pounder

Service History

DateEventSource
26.1.1801Capture of the Dédaigneuse
28.1.1801Taken by off Ferrol
28.1.1801Taken by off Ferrol
28.1.1801Taken by off Ferrol

Sources

IDNameAuthorType

BWAS-1793Rif Winfield, Book

E-WIKIVarious, Web Site

Previous comments on this page

Posted by Jon Miller on Wednesday 15th of July 2026 09:34

Advertisement: For sale at the Brokers’ Warehouse, Woolster Street, Plymouth, on Friday, the 15th day of May next, the standing and running rigging, sails, blocks, iron guns, brass swivels, muskets, shot, gunpowder, boarding-pikes, gun-carriages, legars, butts, and other casks, bread, beef, rice, calavances, with a variety of other stores and provisions, 9 casks coffee, 1 cask tin, 2 barrels sugar, 23 casks annatto, and 9 bales cotton, landed out of the French frigate La Dedaigneuse, captured by His Majesty’s ship L’Oiseau, Samuel Hood Linzee, Esq, commander, in sight of His Majesty’s ship L’Immortalite, Henry Hotham. Esq, commander. Peter Symons, Sworn Broker, Plymouth. [Hampshire Telegraph, 4 May 1801]

Posted by Tim Oakley on Thursday 18th of August 2022 18:33

30 Dec 1800 La Dédaigneuse40 Captain Prevost Lacroix on route from Cayenne to France, sighted Tamar but was unable to engage.

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