page_title: Sibylle-class frigate
hierarchical_section_title: Sibylle-class frigate
context_page_description: The Sibylle class was a class of five 32-gun sail frigates designed by Jacques-Noël Sané and built for the French Navy in the late 1770s. They carried 26 x 12-pounder guns on the upper deck and 6 x 8-pounder guns on the forecastle and quarter deck.
  Sibylle
  Builder: Brest
  Begun: April 1777
  Launched: 1 September 1777
  Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy in February 1783, broken up in 1784
  Néréide
  Builder: Saint Malo
  Begun: October 1778
  Launched: 31 May 1779
  Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy in December 1797, becoming HMS Nereide; retaken by the French Navy in August 1810, but destroyed at the Battle of Grand Port in December 1810.
  Fine
  Builder: Nantes
  Begun: October 1778
  Launched: 11 August 1779
  Fate: Wrecked in Chesapeake Bay in November 1793.
  Diane
  Builder: Saint Malo
  Begun: December 1778
  Launched: 18 January 1779
  Fate: Lost in a tempest on 17 March 1780 off St Lucia
  Émeraude
  Builder: Nantes
  Begun: December 1778
  Launched: 25 October 1779
  Fate: Broken up in 1797.
context_section_description: The Sibylle class was a class of five 32-gun sail frigates designed by Jacques-Noël Sané and built for the French Navy in the late 1770s. They carried 26 x 12-pounder guns on the upper deck and 6 x 8-pounder guns on the forecastle and quarter deck.
  Sibylle 
  Builder: Brest
  Begun: April 1777
  Launched: 1 September 1777
  Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy in February 1783, broken up in 1784
  Néréide 
  Builder: Saint Malo
  Begun: October 1778
  Launched: 31 May 1779
  Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy in December 1797, becoming HMS Nereide; retaken by the French Navy in August 1810, but destroyed at the Battle of Grand Port in December 1810.
  Fine 
  Builder: Nantes
  Begun: October 1778
  Launched: 11 August 1779
  Fate: Wrecked in Chesapeake Bay in November 1793.
  Diane 
  Builder: Saint Malo
  Begun: December 1778
  Launched:  18 January 1779
  Fate: Lost in a tempest on 17 March 1780 off St Lucia
  Émeraude 
  Builder: Nantes
  Begun: December 1778
  Launched: 25 October 1779
  Fate: Broken up in 1797.
caption: Start of the action between HMS Magicienne and Sibylle, 2 January 1783.
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