The Vésuve class was a class of seven 4-gun gunbrigs (bricks-canonniers).
The Royal Navy captured three of the seven vessels in the class and took them into British service.
Vésuve class (7 ships) VésuveRoche, p. 461 Builder: Begun: February 1793 Launched: May 1793 Completed: June 1793 Fate: Captured by and HMS Hebe on 3 July 1795. Commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Vesuve, sold in 1802
VolageRoche, p. 473 Builder: Lemarchand, Saint-Malo Begun: March 1793 Launched: May 1793 Completed: June 1793 Fate: Captured in 1803 by boats from HMS Loire; sold in 1807
CruelleRoche, p. 136 Builder: Begun: Launched: Completed: Fate: Notes:
FoudreRoche, p. 210 Builder: Saint Malo Begun: 1793 Launched: January 1794 Completed: February 1794 Fate: Struck in Saint Valéry en Caux in December 1798 Notes: Renamed Fantôme in May 1795
HargneuseRoche, p. 237 Builder: Saint Malo Begun: 1792 Launched: September 1793 Completed: September 1793 Fate: Decommissioned in Brest in February 1810 Notes: renamed Canonnière n°14 in May 1801
ProtectriceRoche, p. 364-365 Builder: Saint Malo Begun: March 1793 Launched: August 1793 Completed: September 1793 Fate: Decommissioned on 31 March 1807 Notes:
Roche, p. 454 Builder: Saint Malo Begun: 1793 Launched: 1793 Completed: June 1793 Fate: Ran aground in combat against Lapwing, then destroyed by gunfire on 29 November 1796
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Winfield, Rif & Stephen S Roberts (2015) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing).