French ship Africaine

Not to be confused with French ship Africain.

Five ships of the French Navy have carried the name Africaine:

List

• Africaine, a felucca (1664)[1]
• Africaine, a Preneuse-class frigate (1798–1816)
• Africaine, the renamed Ems, was a 44-gun frigate wrecked in 1822[2]
• French bateau Africaine (1827) (1827–1833), was a balancelle or bateau purchased at Toulon in 1827, decommissioned in 1833, and struck in 1835.[3]
• Africaine (1839–72), a 40-gun frigate that also served as a transport, convict transport, and service craft. She was struck from the rolls in 1867 while serving as a storage hulk at Martinique. She was broken up in 1872.[4]
• Africaine, an Aurore-class submarine, c.1940s to 1963

Other

• Africaine, a French 20-gun ship whose seizure by a British privateer in 1804 off Charleston gave rise to an important court case that helped define the extent of U.S. territorial waters.

See also

• French ship Africain - different spelling
• HMS Africaine, two ships of the Royal Navy

Citations

1. Roche (2005), p. 24.
2. Winfield & Roberts (2015), p. 153.
3. Winfield & Roberts (2015), p. 308.
4. Winfield & Roberts (2015), p. 158.

References

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
• Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S. (2015). French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786–1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.