Battle of Tamatave
Order of battle
Key A † symbol indicates that the officer was killed during the action or subsequently died of wounds received. The ships are ordered in the sequence in which they formed up for battle.

Battle of Tamatave

Section Title: Order of battle
Table Section Text: Key A † symbol indicates that the officer was killed during the action or subsequently died of wounds received. The ships are ordered in the sequence in which they formed up for battle.

Commodore Roquebert's squadron

Ship	Rate	Guns	Navy	Commander	Casualties	Notes

Killed	Wounded	Total

Clorinde	Fifth rate	40	-	Captain Jacques Saint-Cricq	1	6	7	Escaped. Reached Brest on 24 September.

Renommée	Fifth rate	40	-	Commodore François Roquebert †	–	–	93	Captured on 20 May. Commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Java.

Néréide	Fifth rate	40	-	Captain Jean-François Lemaresquier †	24	32	56	Captured at Tamatave on 25 May. Commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Madagascar.

Note: British and French accounts of French casualties were significantly different, the British accounts reporting 145 casualties on Renommée and 130 on Néréide.

Casualties: 156 killed or wounded

Sources: James, pp. 20–21, Clowes, p. 486

Sentence(s)

According to the French account of the battle, Renommée suffered 93 killed and wounded, including Commodore Roquebert dead although British accounts give a figure of 145 casualties.

final_sentence: According to the French account of the battle, Renommée suffered 93 killed and wounded, including Commodore Roquebert dead although British accounts give a figure of 145 casualties.