'La Resistance' French 24-pdrs Frigate, 1794 (With Plans)

[Ned Loe]

'La Resistance' 

 

 

Her sister ship was named  'Vengeance' and both were build in 1794. Resistance was captured in 1797.

 

She was armed with 30x24-pdrs on the main deck and the foremost port. The forecastle was armed with 6x12-pdrs, with 14x12-pdrs on quarterdeck.

 

Total

30x24lb

14x12lb

6x12lb

 

Plans 

 

[maturin]

Now that's an odd duck.

[Ned Loe]

Now that's an odd duck.

I wonder what benefits this hull shape would give us. Speed down wind?

 

It reminds me this cutter shape:

 

 

It looks very similar, obviously much shorter and smaller. Both bow and stern match. 

[akd]

You have listed the planned armament, but 18pdrs on UD and 8pdrs / 36pdr obusiers on QD/FC (not surprisingly) replaced this overambitious scheme.

Half-model in RMG collection:

http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/66549.html

This half-model of [HMS] Fisgard (ex. Resistance) highlights the curious underwater shape of this class, with its scow-like bow and long flat run aft. The ship also included technical innovations, like the screw-jacks that allowed the rake of the masts to be altered. Both the designer (Pierre Degay) and the private yard concerned specialised in privateers and this design shows how willing the French Navy was to consider unconventional ideas during the early years of the Revolution, a spirit of experimentation later replaced by Napoleonic standardisation.

-Winfield & Roberts, French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786-1861

Degay and the same shipyard also designed and built the Psyche, a 36-gun 12pdr frigate built as a privateer (and later captured by RN).

http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/66565.html

[maturin]

You have listed the planned armament, but 18pdrs on UD and 8pdrs / 36pdr obusiers on QD/FC (not surprisingly) replaced this overambitious scheme.

 

Half-model in RMG collection:

 

That stern is weeeeerd

[Arvenski]

She's not the most attractive ship, either...

[Ned Loe]

She's not the most attractive ship, either...

She is not a bad looking ship if you submerge that hull up to waterline. We usually don't see complete hull underwater. Right now you are looking at the hull and get that weird shape feeling and here it is without it:

 

 

Unique and beautiful imho.