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|Ship caption=Portrait of ''Égyptienne'' by Jean-Jacques Baugean
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{{Infobox ship class overview
|Name=''Forte''
|Builders=Lorient, Toulon
|Operators=*{{navy|France}}
*{{navy|United Kingdom}}
|Class before={{sclass|Résistance|frigate|4}}
|Class after={{sclass|Romaine|frigate|4}}
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{{Infobox ship characteristics
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|Header caption=<ref name=Roche>Roche p.206</ref>
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|Ship type=50-gun [[frigate]]
|Ship tons burthen=1,012 tons (port measurement)
|Ship displacement=2,042 tons displacement
|Ship length={{convert|52|m|ftin|abbr=on}} (gundeck); {{convert|48|m|abbr=on}} (keel)
|Ship beam={{convert|13|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
|Ship draught={{convert|5.85|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
|Ship hold depth={{convert|5.66|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
|Ship sail plan=[[Full-rigged ship]]
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|Ship armament=*30 × 24-pounder long guns (in the upper deck)
*20 × 8-pounder long guns (6 on the forecastle, 14 on the quarterdeck)
*4 × 36-pounder [[carronade]]s<ref name=Troude173>Troude, p.173</ref>
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The '''''Forte'' class''' was a class of two large [[frigate]]s of the [[French Navy]], designed in 1794 by [[François Caro]]. [[List of French sail frigates|They]] carried 30 24-pounder long guns as their main battery and 20 × 8-pdrs on the quarterdeck and forecastle; they were exceptionally large and powerful heavy frigates for their time.

* [[French frigate Forte (1794)|''Forte'']]
:Builder: Lorient
:Begun: 30 May 1794
:Launched: 26 September 1794 
:Completed: November 1794
:Fate: Captured by the British Navy on 1 March 1799, became HMS ''Forte'', wrecked in January 1801 in the Red Sea.

* [[French frigate Egyptienne (1799)|Égyptienne]]
:Builder: Toulon
:Begun: 26 September 1798
:Launched: 17 July 1799
:Completed: November 1799
:Fate: Captured by the British Navy on 2 September 1801, became HMS ''Egyptienne'', sold for breaking up 30 April 1817

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File:Plans-de-la-frcegate-la-forte.jpg|Plans of the hull of ''Forte''
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==Citations==
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==References==
*{{Cite book|first=Jean-Michel |last=Roche |year=2005 |title=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 |page=208}}
*{{Cite book|first=Onésime-Joachim|last=Troude| author-link = Onésime-Joachim Troude | year=1867 | publisher = Challamel ainé| chapter=Combats particuliers 1799  | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=rhIR5D5quFYC | title = Batailles navales de la France | pages = 171–174}}
*Rif Winfield and Stephen S. Roberts, ''French Warships in the Age of Sail, 1786-1861'' Seaforth Publishing, 2015, {{ISBN|978-1-84832-204-2}}.
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