French frigate Aigle (1782)

Aigle in 1782.
History
France
Name	Aigle
Namesake	Eagle
Builder	Dujardin, Saint Malo, plans by Jacques-Noël Sané
Laid down	1779
Launched	11 February 1780
Acquired	April 1782 by purchase
Fate	Captured 15 September 1782
Great Britain
Name	HMS Aigle
Acquired	September 1782 by capture
Commissioned	December 1782
Fate	Wrecked 19 August 1798
General characteristics [1][2]
Displacement	1200 tons (French)
Length	147 ft 5 in (44.9 m) at gun deck.[3] 37.29 metres at keel.[3]
Beam	39 ft 3 in (12.0 m)
Draught	5.4 m (17.7 ft)
Propulsion	Sail
Complement	French service:360 British service:280
Armament	French service: 28 × 24-pounder long guns + 10-14 × 8-pounder guns[3] British service: Upper deck: 28 × 18-pounder guns QD:8 × 9-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades Fc:2 × 9-pounder chase guns
Armour	Timber

The French frigate Aigle was launched in 1780 as a privateer. The French Navy purchased her in 1782, but the British captured her that same year and took her into the Royal Navy as the 38-gun fifth rate HMS Aigle. During the French Revolutionary Wars she served primarily in the Mediterranean, where she was wrecked in 1798.