French Fifth Rate frigate 'L'Impatiente' (1795)

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Le Séduisant (74) 1783-1796
French 74 Gun
3rd Rate Ship of the Line
1793 Renamed "Pelletier"
1795 Renamed "Séduisant"
(1783)
L'Impatiente (40) 1795-1796
French 40 Gun
5th Rate Frigate
(1795)
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French 14 Gun
Unrated Brig
(1793)
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Service 1755-1795
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3rd Rate Ship of the Line
(1761)
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3rd Rate Ship of the Line
(1782)
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L'Impatiente
Nominal Guns	40	E-WIKI
Nationality	République Française
Operator	State Navy
Keel Laid Down	5.1794	E-WIKI
Launched	12.3.1795	E-WIKI
First Commissioned	5.1795	E-WIKI
How acquired	Purpose built	E-WIKI
Shipyard	Lorient - Brittany	E-WIKI
Ship Class	Romaine Class (1794)	E-WIKI
Designed by	Pierre-Alexander ForfaitFrench Designer Ship Builder Administrator Service 1773-1806	E-WIKI
Category	Fifth Rate	E-WIKI
Ship Type	Frigate	E-WIKI
Sailing Rig	Ship Rigged	E-WIKI
Wrecked	29.12.1796	E-WIKI

Dimensions

DimensionMeasurementTypeMetric EquivalentFWIKI
Length of Gundeck149' 3"French Feet (Pied du Roi)48.3969 (158′ 9″ Imperial)
Breadth38' 9"French Feet (Pied du Roi)12.3729 (40′ 7″ Imperial)

Armament

5.1795Broadside Weight = 408 French Livre (440.3136 lbs 199.716 kg)FWIKI
Gun Deck24 French 24-Pounder
Quarterdeck/Forecastle4 French 36-Pounder Carronade
Quarterdeck/Forecastle12 French 8-Pounder

Service History

DateEventSource
29.12.1796

Wrecked off Cape Clear

E-WIKI

Sources

IDNameAuthorType

E-WIKIVarious, Web Site

FWIKIVarious, Web Site

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Posted by Jon Miller on Thursday 11th of June 2026 09:44

Two French line of battle ships have returned to Bantry Bay in a most disabled state, one with the loss of her rudder, and the other of her bowsprit, where it is probable they must remain if they are not better supplied with provisions than the Suffrein, armed en flute, which has been taken. Another line of battle ship has been seen entirely dismasted. L’Impatientie frigate of 44 guns, 400 men and 250 troops, struck upon a rock a few leagues from Crookhaven, is lost, and only the pilot and six men saved. She was a new frigate, never at sea before, carried 24-pounders, and was a model of La Pomone, Sir J Borlase Warren’s ship. [Hampshire Chronicle,7 January 1797]

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