Name Railleuse Class and type Frigate Launched 1683 Weight 169 tons | Builder Dunkirk Displacement 169 tonnes Length 29 m | |
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Namesake "banteter", "jester" (female form) Fate Destroyed on 5 August 1703 | ||
The Railleuse was an 18-gun frigate of the French Navy, launched in 1689.
Career
Under Captain Jean Bart, Railleuse ferried François Louis, Prince of Conti to Poland, departing Dunkirk on 6 September 1697 and reaching Gdańsk on the 20th. She then returned him to France on 11 December.
She was destroyed by fire on 5 August 1703, along with Joyeuse, when three English ships of the line attacked the convoy that she was escorting.
References
French frigate Railleuse (1689) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA