title: Vésuve-class gunbrig
text: # Vésuve-class gunbrig
  
  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)
  
  * Vésuve
  
      Builder:
      Begun: February 1793
      Launched: May 1793
      Completed: June 1793
      Fate: Captured by HMS Melampus and HMS Hebe on 3 July 1795. Commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Vesuve, sold in 1802
  * Volage
  
      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
  * Cruelle
  
      Builder:
      Begun:
      Launched:
      Completed:
      Fate:
      Notes:
  * Foudre
  
      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
  * Hargneuse
  
      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
  * Protectrice
  
      Builder: Saint Malo
      Begun: March 1793
      Launched: August 1793
      Completed: September 1793
      Fate: Decommissioned on 31 March 1807
      Notes:
  * Vaillante
  
      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
  