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|Name=''Preneuse''
|Builders=[[Rochefort, Charente-Maritime|Rochefort]]
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|Ship displacement=1400 tonnes
|Ship tons burthen=722 tonnes
|Ship length=47.75 metres
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|Ship complement= 340 in wartime; 260 in peacetime
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|Ship armament=*44 guns:
*28 [[18-pounder long gun]]s
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|Ship notes=Ships in class include: [[French frigate Preneuse (1794)|''Preneuse'']], [[French frigate Africaine (1798)|''Africaine'']]
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The '''''Preneuse'' class''' was a type of two 44-gun [[frigate]]s of the French Navy, designed by Raymond-Antoine Haran and built at [[Rochefort, Charente-Maritime]].

* [[French frigate Preneuse (1794)|''Preneuse'']]
:Builder: [[Rochefort, Charente-Maritime|Rochefort]] Dockyard
:Ordered: 24 April 1794
:Begun: April 1794
:Launched: 16 February 1795
:Completed: July 1795
:Fate: Ran aground 11 December 1799 on the [[Isle de France (Mauritius)|Île de France (Mauritius)]] to avoid attack by British warships, which then burnt her.

* [[French frigate Africaine (1798)|''Africaine'']]
:Builder: [[Rochefort, Charente-Maritime|Rochefort]] Dockyard
:Ordered: 1795
:Begun: March 1795
:Launched: 3 January 1798
:Completed: May 1798
:Fate: Captured 19 February 1801 by HMS ''Phoebe'' east of Gibraltar. Recaptured 13 September 1810 by the French but immediately retaken bu HMS ''Boadicea''. Taken to pieces in September 1816.

==References==
* {{cite book|title=La Marine de la Révolution: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1792 A 1799|last=Demerliac|first=Alain|year=2004|publisher=Éditions Ancre|isbn=2-906381-24-1|language=fr}}
* {{cite book|title=La Marine du Consulat et du Premier Empire: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1800 A 1815|last=Demerliac|first=Alain|year=2004|publisher=Éditions Ancre|isbn=2-903179-30-1|language=fr}}
* {{cite book |first=Rif|last=Winfield|title=British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates|publisher=Seaforth Publishing|year=2008|isbn=978-1-86176-246-7}}
* {{cite book|last1=Winfield|first1=Rif|last2=Roberts|first2=Stephen S.|year=2015|title=French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786–1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates|publisher=Seaforth Publishing|isbn=978-1-84832-204-2}}

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