The Galathée class was a type of 32-gun frigates of the French Navy, designed by Raymond-Antoine Haran, with 26 × 12-pounder and 6 × 6-pounder guns. six units were built in all, seeing service during the Naval operations in the American Revolutionary War, and later in the French Revolutionary Wars. The Royal Navy captured and took into service five of the six, the sixth being wrecked early in the French Revolutionary Wars.
Galathée
Builder: Rochefort
Ordered:
Launched: 1779
Fate: wrecked in 1795
Railleuse
Builder: Bordeaux
Ordered:
Launched: 1779
Fate: sold as a privateer and captured in 1804 by the Royal Navy. Taken into British service as HMS
Antigua.
Fleur de Lys
Builder: Rochefort
Ordered:
Launched: 1785
Fate: renamed to
Pique, captured by the Royal Navy and taken into British service as HMS
Pique in 1796
Charente Inférieure
Builder: Rochefort
Ordered:
Launched: 1793
Fate: renamed
Tribune in February 1794, captured by British Navy in 1796 and taken into British service as HMS
Tribune, being wrecked the next year
Républicaine française
Builder: Bordeaux
Ordered:
Launched: 1794
Fate: renamed
Renommée in 1795; captured by British Navy in 1796, becoming HMS
Renommee. Broken up 1810
Décade Française
Builder: Pierre Guibert, Bordeaux
Ordered:
Launched: 1794
Fate: Renamed
Décade in 1795; captured by British navy in 1798, becoming HMS
Decade. Sold 1811
