title: Sémillante-class frigate
text: # Sémillante-class frigate
  
  The Sémillante class was a type of 12-pounder, 32-gun frigate of the French Navy, designed by Pierre-Joseph Pénétreau.
  
      Builder: Lorient
      Ordered: 23 April 1790 (named)
      Laid down: December 1790
      Launched: 25 November 1791
      Completed: May 1792
      Fate: Given to Robert Surcouf at Mauritius in September 1808 and armed by him as a privateer, renamed Charles. Captured by the Royal Navy in December 1809 and broken up.
      Builder: Lorient
      Ordered: 3 September 1790
      Laid down: 5 November 1791
      Launched: 27 April 1793
      Completed: June 1793
      Fate: Captured by the US Navy off Nevis on 8 February 1799, recommissioned as USS Insurgent, but lost at sea in a hurricane in September 1800.
  