French ship Biche (1798)

History
France
Name: Biche
Namesake: hind
Builder: Brest
Laid down: April 1798
Launched: 18 August 1798
In service: September 1798
Struck: 1807
General characteristics
Class and type: Agile class schooner
Displacement: 65 tonnes
Length: 26 m (85 ft)
Beam: 6.6 m (22 ft)
Draught: 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in)
Propulsion: Sail
Armament: 8 guns
Armour: Timber

The Biche was an 8-gun Agile class schooner of the French Navy.

She took part in the Expédition d'Irlande and in the Battle of Tory Island.

She was decommissioned in 1803.


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