quarter deck & forecastle ("les gaillards") - 8 long 8-pounders and 8 36-pounder carronades (there were several variant ordnance fits on the gaillards)
Armour
Timber
Jacques-Noël Sané designed the Hortense-class 40-gun
frigates of the French Navy in 1802, a development of his 1793 design for the
Virginie class. Eight frigates to this new design were ordered between 1801 and 1806, but two ordered on 18 April 1803 at
Antwerp (Néréïde and Vénus) were cancelled unstarted in June 1803; the other six were built between 1803 and 1807. Of the six, one was wrecked at sea and the British
Royal Navy captured three, taking two into service.[1]
Rif Winfield and Stephen S. Roberts, French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786-1861: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing, 2015.
ISBN978-1-84832-204-2.