Maritime History

French frigate Aigle (1782)

Aigle was a 36-gun frigate launched in 1780 as a French privateer. The French Navy purchased and commissioned her in 1782, but a British squadron captured her in the action of 15 September 1782 and the frigate was subsequently commissioned into the Royal Navy as the 38-gun fifth-rate HMS Aigle in December of that year. During the French Revolutionary Wars she served primarily in the Mediterranean, where Aigle was wrecked on 19 August 1798.

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• ▸Bonaire
• ▸Juan de Pareja
• ▸HMT Empire Windrush

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