French frigate Cléopâtre (1781)

	Cléopâtre at Start Point, Devon in 1793
History
France
Name	Cléopâtre
Namesake	Cleopatra
Builder	Saint Malo
Laid down	1780
Launched	19 August 1781
Commissioned	December 1781
Captured	Captured by the Royal Navy 1793
Great Britain
Name	Oiseau
Acquired	19 June 1793 by capture
Fate	Broken up 1816
General characteristics
Class and type	Vénus-class frigate
Displacement	1,082 tons (French)
Tons burthen	91316⁄94 (bm)
Length	Overall:145 ft 7+3⁄4 in (44.393 m); Keel: 120 ft 8+7⁄8 in (36.801 m);
Beam	37 ft 8+1⁄2 in (11.494 m)
Depth of hold	11 ft 11+3⁄4 in (3.651 m)
Complement	254 (British service)
Armament	French service:; Originally: 18 × 12-pounder + 14 × 6-pounder long guns; May 1783-1793:18 x 18-pounder guns vice 12-pounders (Loaded at Trincomalee); 1793:26 x12-pounder guns + 10 x 6-pounder guns; British service:; Upper deck:26 × 12-pounder guns; QD:8 × 24-pounder carronades; Fc:2 × 6-pounder guns + 2 × 24-pounder carronades;
Armour	Timber

Cléopâtre was a 32-gun Vénus class frigate of the French Navy. She was designed by Jacques-Noël Sané, and had a coppered hull. She was launched in 1781, and the British captured her in 1793. She then served the Royal Navy as HMS Oiseau until she was broken up in 1816.

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