LeBoiteux Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 (edited) La Naïade (The Naiad) French 9-pdr corvette 1779 20 guns Dimensions (pied du Roi) : 119 x 30,6 x 15,6 Armament : 20 x 9-pdr Built by J.-M.-B. Coulomb (at Toulon), captured by the British in 1783 and converted into a 26-gun 6th-Rate, HMS Naiad(e). Seven sister ships (built beween 1779-1781 with the best ship names ever ;-) : La Coquette, La Blonde, La Brune, La Sémillante, La Badine, La Belette, La Poulette Plan made by the British in 1783, before main transformations, kept by the Greenwich NMMuseum Plan analysis : Notice 10 portholes for 10 guns + a front port, empty, to be filled by the nearest gun during chasing, The 3 portholes on the quarterdeck don't belong to the French version of the ship but are part of the British conversion proposal, Hull with a flat bottom and substantial tumblehome as earlier in the 18th century (see La Renommée) Possible figurehead : a pair of Marmaids Sculpture made by the Arsenal de Toulon (where the Corvette was built) in 1779 (same date) from Antoine Gibert's drawings for the 'frigate' (?) La Naïade (186 x 55 x 68 cm) Paris, musée national de la Marine, Inv. 9 OA 17 [39 OA 16] Sources : Boudriot, Historique de la corvette, La Créole 1827, p. 26-27, 30 Boudriot, Neptunia n° 137, 1980 https://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_ship&id=16595 Drawing of the hull : http://i68.servimg.com/u/f68/16/20/79/11/0410.jpg Article about Corvettes by Surcouf : http://forum.game-labs.net/topic/7645-les-corvettes/?tab=comments#comment-144903 Edited September 29, 2017 by LeBoiteux 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slim McSauce Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 ayyyy french boobies +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbancourt Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 Need corvettes ++ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Gud Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 BOOBIES!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbancourt Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 Hmmmm...from the crowd reaction this ship decorated as suggested (in glorious "HD") may sell 1,000,000 copies of Naval Action on its own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Armstrong Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 (edited) What a fine corvette! It would appear this class was revived by Coulomb in the early 1790s with the Babet and Prompte? Though the the later vessels seem to have slightly smaller dimensions their plans are extremely similar: https://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_class&id=531 Edited October 2, 2017 by Captain Armstrong 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeBoiteux Posted October 2, 2017 Author Share Posted October 2, 2017 (edited) Indeed the same builder, J.-M.-B. Coulomb, made both the royalist Coquette class (in 1779-1781) and the French Revolution Prompte class (in 1793), both 20-gun corvettes, and achieved little innovation in the meantime (apart from the smallest dimensions of the latter). La Babet (1793) Plan from NMM of Greenwich Source (@Wagram) : http://forum.game-labs.net/topic/7348-sélection-de-navires-1er-semestre-2016/?do=findComment&comment=139085 Dimensions (pieds du Roi) : 112 x 28, 6 x 14, 4 Armament : 20 x 9-pdr Sister ship : La Prompte Sources (plans, info) : Boudriot, Historique de la Corvette, p. 34-36 Demerliac., p.247 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Babet_(1794) British armament = 22 (La Babet), 24 (La Prompte), 26 (La Naïade). Edited October 3, 2017 by LeBoiteux 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeBoiteux Posted October 3, 2017 Author Share Posted October 3, 2017 (edited) Capture of La Babet by the British in April 23rd 1794 http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/109622.html http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/109625.html Edited October 3, 2017 by LeBoiteux 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Armstrong Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 That second print is quite creative! Either the pomone or babet is shown with 3 tiers of quarter galleries overall, the type seems a well-documented and representative example of the quarterdecked french corvette (as opposed to flush decked examples like the Bonne Citoyenne or Diligente) I assume because the class was revived they had at least decent sailing qualities? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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