French frigate Comète (1796)

History
France
Name:	Comète
Namesake:	Comet
Builder:	Le Havre
Laid down:	October 1794
Launched:	11 March 1796
In service:	January 1798
Fate:	Broken up in 1810
General characteristics
Class and type:	Romaine class frigate
Displacement:	700 tonnes
Length:	45.5 m (149 ft)
Beam:	11.8 m (39 ft)
Draught:	5 m (16 ft)
Propulsion:	Sail
Armament:	40 guns: 24 24-pounders 16 8-pounders
Armour:	Timber

The Comète was a Romaine class frigate of the French Navy.

She took part in the Atlantic campaign of 1806 and in the Battle of San Domingo.

The frigates Comète and Félicité, and the corvette Diligente captured and burned the American vessel Lark, Moore, master, which was sailing from Philadelphia to Jamaica.^{[Note 1]}

From June 1808, she was used as a mast machine in Bayonne, and was eventually broken up in 1810.

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

1. The report in Lloyd's List refers to the "brig Diligente". The French navy had a brig Diligent, but she was not in the area.^[1]

Citations

1. Lloyd's List, no. 4061, - accessed 1 February 2014.

References

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671–1870. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 121. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.