French frigate Surveillante (1778)

Battle between the French frigate Surveillante and the British frigate Quebec, 6 October 1779, by Auguste-Louis Rossel de Cercy (detail)
History
France
Name	Surveillante
Namesake	French for "monitor, supervisor"
Builder	Lorient
Laid down	August 1777
Launched	26 March 1778
Commissioned	May 1778
Decommissioned	January 1797
Fate	Scuttled 1796
General characteristics
Class and type	Iphigénie-class frigate
Displacement	620 tons (French)
Length	44.2 m (145 ft 0 in)
Beam	11.2 m (36 ft 9 in)
Draught	4.9 m (16 ft 1 in)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Armament	28 × 18-pounder long guns 4 × 6-pounder long guns[a]

Surveillante [syʁ.vɛ.jɑ̃t] was an Iphigénie-class 32-gun frigate of the French Navy. She took part in the Naval operations in the American Revolutionary War, where she became famous for her battle with HMS Quebec; in 1783, she brought the news that the war was over to America. She later took part in the French Revolutionary Wars, and was eventually scuttled during the Expédition d'Irlande after sustaining severe damage in a storm. The wreck was found in 1979 and is now a memorial.
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