French frigate Piémontaise

	La Pie'montaise in 1806
History
France
Name	Piémontaise
Namesake	Piedmont
Builder	Saint Malo
Laid down	22 March 1803
Launched	15 December 1804
Commissioned	23 September 1805 at Saint Servan
Captured	8 March 1808
United Kingdom
Name	Piedmontaise
Acquired	8 March 1808
Fate	Broken up in 1813
General characteristics
Class and type	Consolante-class frigate
Displacement	1400 tons (French)
Tons burthen	109183⁄94 (bm)
Length	157 ft 5 in (47.98 m) (overall); 128 ft 10 in (39.27 m) (keel)
Beam	39 ft 11 in (12.17 m)
Draught	6.17 m (20.2 ft)
Depth of hold	12 ft 8 in (3.86 m)
Propulsion	Sail
Armament	Originally; UD: 28 × 18-pounder long guns; Spardeck: 14 x 36-pounder obusiers + 4 x 8-pounder guns; French service; UD: 28 × 18-pounder long guns; QD: 12 × 8-pounder long guns; Fc: 4 × 32-pounder carronades; British service; UD:28 × 18-pounder guns; QD:14 × 32-pounder carronades; Fc:2 × 9-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades;
Armour	Timber

Piémontaise was a 40-gun Consolante-class frigate of the French Navy. She served as a commerce raider in the Indian Ocean until her capture in March 1808. She then served with the British Royal Navy in the East Indies until she was broken up in Britain in 1813.

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