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PLanset Review:
HERMIONE
12-Pdr frigate of the American War of Independence 1779-1793

in scale 1:48
by Jean Claude Lemineur with assistance by Patrick Villiers
Translated by François Fougerat

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This monographie is available from ancre in different languages, which can be choosen - English / French / Italian or Spanish

https://ancre.fr/en/monograph/78-hermione-monographie-9782903179908.html

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Size of the model in scale 1:48
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SYNOPSIS:

On March 10, 1780, The Marquis de Lafayette boarded Hermione on his way to the coasts of North America. He left to announce the arrival of royal troops to fight the English occupier on the side of the insurgents. The crossing was accomplished in the record time of 48 days. This performance was due to Hermione’s excellent nautical qualities. In fact, Hermione was a new-generation frigate built before the revolution. Started on the ways in December 1778, she benefited from important advances that were brought about by a new concept developed during the second half of the 18th century that translated into seagoing capabilities well beyond those of vessels built according to older designs. Like the other frigates of her generation she allied speed and firepower, allowing her to rival those of the Royal Navy. But what did Hermione look like?
Surprisingly, nothing specific remains concerning her, except for the information that she was constructed on the same plans as Concorde, built in 1777. As it turns out, Concorde’s lines were taken off by the Royal Navy after her capture in 1783, and the plans were kept at the NMM in Greenwich.
It is fair to believe that Hermione is similar. However, the plans reveal some peculiarities specific to Concorde, which is and not present on Hermione. Her battery is pierced for 14 gunports to each side, not counting the chase ports. The arrangement of the gunports, which is obviously different, results in a reduction of the quarter-galleries volume. Finally, between 1777 and 1783, the existing frigates were the object of many modifications that Concorde was not spared. What were they compared to the original? Did they also apply to Hermione? Although she was built on the same plans as Concorde, Hermione was distinguished by some notable differences in her overall aspect.
Her looks were thus undefined and remained to be discovered!
Gathering all historical and archeological elements, refering to different works dealing with contemporaneous naval construction and examining the plans of similar frigates, on the strength of his experience on the subject Jean-Claude Lemineur attempts to give to Hermione a look that is the most probably close to reality.


ORGANIZATION OF THE MONOGRAPH

An initial chapter is concerned with the nautical qualities that warships must have possessed. They were especially mediocre for vessels built during the 17th century and the fi rst half of the 18th because of the use of obsolete concepts. The new design concepts that were adopted toward the end of that period are described next, as well as the improvements in performance and sea-going capabilities that resulted.
A second chapter is the object of a detailed study of documents concerned with the architecture and characteristics of sister-frigates, a study that allows the identifi cation in a plausible manner, of the various poorly known aspects of Hermione.
Thirty-four plates, most of them with comments, provide a detailed picture of the ship.

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left the booklet and on the right the huge number of drawings

CONTENT of the BOOKLET

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I - THE FRIGATE OF THE AMERICAN WAR - A SUM OF THE NAVAL ART
Required nautical properties in a warship
Failure of the early architectural concepts
Early architectural concepts
Toward the new concept
A new design concept for frigates
From the 8-pounder to the 12-pounder frigate
New concepts and nautical performances
II - HERMIONE WHAT DID SHE LOOK LIKE?
The main architectural choices in 12-pounder frigates at the start of the conflict
The evolution of frigates after the 7-year war
Architectural characteristics of the frigates designed by the Chevillard brothers
PLan of the Aurore
Plan of the Charmante
Plan of the Concorde
Conclusions
Hermione´s decoration a stereotypic decoration
The use of Color
Note on coppering
Decoration of the stern
Hermione and her myth
III - ARTILLERY AND EQUIPMENT
Hermione´s artillery
Note sur la charpente
The rigging of 12-pounder frigates
IV - MONOGRAPH COMMENTS TO THE PLATES
Plates 17 to 34
Rigging rules
Miscellaneous / Nomenclature
V - ADDITIONS
Dates Reperes / Acknowldegements / Summary


CONTENT of the DRAWINGS

1. Schematic elevation
2. Schematic plan view
3. Vertical view of frames
4. Construction of the stern
5. Construction of the stern-frame
6. Construction of the hawse pieces I
7. Construction of the hawse pieces II
8. Profiles of aft frames 1 to 6
9. Profiles of aft frames 7 to 12
10. Profiles of aft frames 13 to 19
11. Profiles of aft frames 20 to 29
12. Profilles of the main frame and forward frames 1 to 5
13. Profiles of forward frames 6 to 11
14. Profiles of forward frames 12 to 18
15. Profiles of forward frames 19 to 24
16. Timbered elevation
17. Plan of the bottom of the hold
18. Between-decks plan
19. Timbering of the gundeck and castles
20. Gundeck and its furniture
21. Castles and their furniture
22. Lengthwise section
23. Cross-sections
24. Built-up elevation
25. Decoration of the stem and stern-frame
26. Artillery and furniture
27. Elements of furniture
28. Plans of masts and yards
29. Mast fi ttings
30. Mainmast masts and rigging
31. Foremast masts and rigging
32. Mizzen masts and rigging
33. Running rigging (1/72 scale)
34. Hermione under sail (1/72 scale)


Final Comment:

Not much to say, only - a wonderful complete planset and monographie of a technically and historical very interesting frigate.
As usual from the ancre publications - Highly recommended


LOOK INSIDE of the BOOKLET

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Explanations and Comments to the plates
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In the following post you can find the LOOK INSIDE of the drawing set ........ to be continued ......
 
Part 2 of the PLanset Review:
HERMIONE
12-Pdr frigate of the American War of Independence 1779-1793

in scale 1:48
by Jean Claude Lemineur with assistance by Patrick Villiers
Translated by François Fougerat


from the attached Advertisement pdf
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LOOK INSIDE of the DRAWINGS

all drawings in the overview - a lot of paper !
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The frames - for each single frame you have a designed special drawing
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Each mast is shown complete with all rigging
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Final sail plan with complete belaying points deck plan
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You see - nothing missing to prepare a complete wonderful model - Highly recommended planset!
 

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The Concorde class was a type of 32-gun frigate of the French Navy, designed by Henri Chevillard, carrying 12-pounder long guns as their main armament. Three ships of this type were built between 1778 and 1779, and served during the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary Wars.

The class is noteworthy for comprising a fourth unit, Hermione (2014), laid down in 1997 and launched in 2014; she is a replica ship of Hermione (1779), famous for ferrying General Lafayette and for her role in the Naval battle of Louisbourg under the command of Lieutenant de Latouche, who would rise to become Vice-admiral Latouche-Tréville.

Ships
Builder: Rochefort
Begun: April 1777
Launched: 3 September 1777
Completed: January 1778
Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy on 15 February 1783. Sold on 21 February 1811.
Builder: Rochefort
Begun: September 1777
Launched: 28 February 1778
Completed: April 1778
Fate: Captured by HMS Centaur in the Action of 18 June 1799
Builder: Rochefort
Begun: March 1778
Launched: 28 April 1779
Completed: June 1779
Fate: Ran aground and wrecked due to a navigation error of her pilot at Croisic on 20 September 1793

and somehow
Builder: Rochefort
Begun: 1997
Launched: 2012
 
Concorde (originally Le Concorde) was a 32-gun frigate of the French Navy, lead ship of her class. Built in Rochefort in 1777, she entered service with the French early in the American War of Independence, and was soon in action, capturing HMS Minerva in the West Indies. She survived almost until the end of the war, but was captured by HMS Magnificent in 1783. Not immediately brought into service due to the draw-down in the navy after the end of the war, she underwent repairs and returned to active service under the White Ensign with the outbreak of war with France in 1793 as the fifth-rate HMS Concorde.

Initially part of squadrons cruising off the French coast, she played an important part in the Action of 23 April 1794, capturing the French frigate Engageante, and at a later engagement, where she helped to capture the French frigate Virginie. From 1797 until the early 19th century she had especial success against privateers, capturing a large number in the West Indies and in the Atlantic. She had a narrow escape from a superior French force in 1801, but was able to batter her pursuer, the 40-gun Bravoure into submission. She was prevented from capturing her by the arrival of French reinforcements. Her last years were spent on a variety of stations, including at the Cape of Good Hope and the East Indies. Laid up in 1807, she was sold for breaking up in 1811.

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Construction and French career
Concorde was one of a three-ship class of Concorde-class frigates built for the French Navy to a design by Henri Chevillard. She was built at Rochefort between April 1777 and January 1778, being launched on 3 September 1777. She went out to the West Indies after the French entry to the American War of Independence, and reached Martinique on 17 August 1778. On 28 August 1778 she came up on the 32-gun HMS Minerva, under Captain John Stott, and after two and a half hours of fighting, captured her. Minerva was towed to Cap Français on Saint-Domingue, where she was joined shortly afterwards by the captured HMS Active, which a hurricane had dismasted in late August and which the French frigates Charmante and Dédaigneuse had captured on 1 September.

Class and type: 32-gun fifth-rate frigate
Tons burthen: 888 82⁄94 bm
Length:
  • 142 ft 11 in (43.6 m) (overall)
  • 118 ft 10 in (36.2 m) (keel)
Beam: 37 ft 6 in (11.4 m)
Depth of hold: 11 ft 7 in (3.53 m)
Sail plan: Full-rigged ship
Complement: 220
Armament:
  • (as HMS Concorde)
  • Upper deck: 28 x 12-pdrs
  • Quarter deck: 4 x 6-pdrs + 6 x 24-pdr carronades
  • Forecastle: 2 x 6-pdrs + 2 x 24-pdr carronades
  • (From 1793 all 6-pdrs were all replaced by 24-pdr carronades, later reinstated)

In 1781 Concorde was responsible for vital transfers of personnel, funds, and communications that contributed to the allied success at Yorktown. In March 1781 she carried despatches to George Washington and the Comte de Rochambeau from France. These despatches included a request from the comte de Grasse, commander of the West Indies fleet, for information on planned allied operations and the delivery of pilots familiar with the American coast. She also carried 6 million livres to support the war effort, and the new commander of the French naval squadron at Newport, Rhode Island, the comte de Barras. Following a conference of allied leaders in May, Concorde was sent to Cap-Français with despatches for de Grasse and the requested pilots.[6] When de Grasse received these despatches, he made the critical decision to sail his fleet to the Chesapeake Bay to assist in land operations against British forces operating under the command of Charles Cornwallis in Virginia. Concorde carried de Grasse's letters for Washington, Rochambeau, and de Barras back to Newport; arrival of this news set in motion Washington's march to Virginia and the eventual entrapment of Cornwallis at Yorktown.

On 7 January 1783, Concorde was in company with Nymphe. They sighted HMS Raven, which initially sailed towards them until she realized that they were not British frigates. An all-day chase ensued until about 9p.m. when one of the frigates got within pistol-shot and fired a broadside that took away Raven's main topgallant-mast. The chase continued until about 10:30 p.m. when one of the frigates was again in range, with the other coming up rapidly. At this point, Raven, which was under the command of Commander John Wells, struck. The French Navy took Raven into service under the name Cérès, which she had born when under French colours between 1778 and 1782.

Capture

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The battle between Concorde and HMS Minerva

On 15 February the 74-gun HMS Magnificent, under Captain Robert Linzee, sighted Concorde. Magnificent had sailed from Gros Islet Bay on 12 February on a cruise in company with the 64-gun ships HMS Prudent and HMS St Albans, and on sighting the strange sail, Magnificent gave chase. She was close enough to identify the mysterious ship as a frigate by 18:00, and by 20:00 as darkness fell Concorde opened fire on her pursuer with her stern guns. Magnificent overhauled the French ship by 21:15, and after fifteen minutes forced her to strike her colours. Magnificenttook possession of Concorde, the latter being described as carrying 36 guns and 300 men, and being under the command of M. le Chevalier du Clesmaur. Shortly after surrendering the Concorde's maintopsail caught fire, forcing the crew to cut away the mainmast to extinguish it. Prudent and St Albans came up two hours later and Magnificent towed Concorde to St. John's, Antigua.

Interwar years
Concorde was bought into the navy and commissioned in the West Indies for a return to Britain later in the year, though her commander for this voyage is unknown. She arrived in Britain and was paid off in September at Chatham. With the end of the American War of Independence and the draw-down in the navy, Concorde was not brought into immediate service but remained laid up at Chatham until November 1790, when a great repair was begun by Wilson, of Frindsbury. The work, which cost a total of £18,259, was completed by April 1793, by which time the French Revolutionary Wars had broken out. She was fitted for service at Chatham between April and May 1793, at a cost of £6,600, and was commissioned in April under Captain Thomas Wells.

French Revolutionary Wars
In 1794 command of Concorde passed to Captain Sir Richard Strachan, and she joined Commodore John Borlase Warren's squadron off the French coast. The squadron also included Warren's 36-gun HMS Flora, the 38-gun HMS Arethusa under Captain Sir Edward Pellew, and the 36-gun frigates HMS Melampus, under Captain Thomas Wells, and HMS Nymphe, under Captain George Murray.

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Hand-coloured.; Technique includes pen and ink style lithograph. The identity of the vessel on the extreme left of the image is unknown. The other vessels depicted are, from left to right, the Engageante (French), the Concorde (British) and the Resolve (French).

Concorde and Engageante
Main article: Action of 23 April 1794

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Depiction of the Action of 23 April 1794 by Thomas Whitcombe

While sailing off the Channel Islands on 23 April the British squadron came across a French squadron under Commodore Desgareaux consisting of the 36-gun Engageante, the 44-gun Pomone, the 36-gun Résolue and the 24-gun Babet. Warren chased and engaged them, leading the attack in Flora. When the Flora was badly damaged from the combined fire from the French ships, the remaining British ships came up in support, and forced the rear-most French ships, Babet and Pomone, to surrender. Melampus, Nymphe and Concorde gave chase to the fleeing Résolue and Engageante. Strachan in Concorde attempted to damage the rearmost of the French ships, Engageante, before pushing on to chase Résolue, but the Résolue dropped back to support the Engageante, damaging Concorde's sails and rigging. With Nymphe and Melampus still too far astern, and unable to catch Résolue himself, Strachan engaged Engageante and after 105 minutes of fighting, forced her to surrender, while Résolue made her escape. The Concorde lost one man killed and 12 wounded in the fighting.

Concorde and Virginie
Concorde was then assigned to Rear-Admiral George Montagu's squadron in May 1794, and took part in the manoeuvres during the Atlantic campaign of May 1794. Strachan left Concorde in July 1794 to take command of HMS Melampus, and in August Captain Anthony Hunt took over command of Concorde. Concorde was part of John Warren's squadron off Quiberon between June and July 1795, supporting the Quiberon Expedition, after which she joined Sir Edward Pellew's squadron. On 20 April 1796 Pellew's squadron, then consisting of Concorde, Pellew's 38-gun HMS Indefatigable and the 36-gun HMS Amazon under Captain Robert Carthew Reynolds, spotted and chased a mysterious sail. After chasing her for 15 hours over 168 miles they caught up with her, with Indefatigable leading the attack. Both ships exchanged fire, considerably damaging each other, upon which Concorde came up under her stern and forced her to surrender. She was discovered to be the 40-gun Virginie, under Captain Jacques Bergeret. The captured French ship was towed to port and taken into the navy.

Later years
On 31 January 1795 Concorde was part of a squadron under Captain Sir John Borlase Warren that seized the Dutch East India Ship Ostenhuyson.

Command of Concorde passed from Hunt to Captain Richard Bagot in November 1796, and he in turn was succeeded by Captain Batholomew Roberts in June 1797. Concorde captured the 4-gun privateer Poisson Volant off Cape Finisterre on 24 July 1797. She was bound from Bordeaux to Guadeloupe carrying wines and merchandise, after which she intended to cruise as a privateer in the West Indies. Concorde was later commanded by Captain Robert Barton, who took a number of privateers in a series of cruises in the West Indies in 1798, capturing the 16-gun Caye du Pont off St Bartholomew on 3 January, the 8-gun Proserpine off Montserrat on 8 January, the 8-gun Hardi off Barbuda on 11 February, the 2-gun Hazard off Montserrat on 13 February and the 2-gun Rosière off Montserrat on 1 April. In an action with HMS Lapwing on 8 and 9 September she captured four privateers, the 8-gun Buonaparte, 10-gun Amazone, 4-gun Sauveur and 2-gun Fortune.

Concorde's success against privateers continued with the capture of the 18-gun Prudente on 14 February 1799 and the 6-gun San Josef off Oporto in December 1800 and the 1-gun San Miguel el Volante on 1 December 1800. Concorde had a narrow escape from a French squadron under Rear-Admiral Honoré Joseph Antoine Ganteaume, which had sailed from Brest on 23 January 1801. The French sighted Concorde off Cape Finisterre on 27 January, and the 40-gun Bravoure was sent to chase her down. Concorde cast off a Swedish ship she was towing and drew the French frigate away from the main body of the fleet. Barton then turned and engaged her for forty minutes, silencing her guns. By now the main French fleet was fast approaching, and with his sails and rigging damaged, Barton did not attempt to take possession of Bravoure and instead made for a British port to report the encounter. Concorde had four men killed and 19 wounded in the engagement, while Bravoure had 10 killed and 24 wounded.

Napoleonic Wars
Captain John Wood succeeded Barton in 1802, and the following year Concorde went out to the Cape of Good Hope. On 7 November 1804, she captured the 24-gun privateer Fortune, under François-Thomas Le Même, after a ten-hour running battle. In the battle Fortune lost two men killed and had four wounded; Concorde had no casualties. Fortune also suffered extensive damage to her rigging. A few days earlier at Qais Island Fortune had captured and scuttled Fly, a 14-gun brig belonging to the Bombay Marine of the British East India Company. Captain Wood received his prisoners "with distinction" and Concorde returned to Bombay. Fortune, reduced to a poor condition, limped in several days later.

Concorde was under Captain John Cramer, probably from February 1806. She was still in the East Indies in 1807, where in July she captured the 2-gun privateer Vigilant.

Fate
Concorde returned to England and was paid off in September 1807. She spent several years laid up in Ordinary. The Navy sold her at Deptford on 21 February 1811.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Concorde_(1783)
 
I got a pm that the Ancre L Hermione is not the same as the replica, the replica was developed from a different plan set and not the same era.
 
The second of the three ships of the Concorde class was

Courageuse was a 12-pounder Concorde class frigate of the French Navy. She was launched in 1778. The British captured her in 1799 and thereafter used her as a receiving ship or prison hulk at Malta before breaking her up in 1802.

Career
In 1790, under Captain de Grasse-Briançon, Courageuse was part of the Toulon squadron under Vice-admiral de Poute de Nieuil. From 2 August, she ferried troops and civil commissioners to Corsica, and cruised in the area before making a port call to Ajaccio and eventually returning to Toulon on 30 October.

In 1792, under Captain de La Croix de Saint-Vallier, Courageuse sailed off Smyrna, Saloniki and Tripoli, returning to Smyrna on 6 December. In January 1793, she escorted a convoy to Marseille, and from there returned to Toulon, arriving on 12 May.

Courageuse took part in the Croisière du Grand Hiver in the winter of 1794-1795, under Captain Dalbarade. She was part of the naval division under Rear-admiral Renaudin, which arrived in Toulon on 2 April 1795.

In the summer of 1795, she was part of the station of the Gulf of Roses, under Lieutenant Pourquier, supporting the Army of the Pyrenees in the Siege of Roses. On 9 July, she defended herself against a Spanish squadron, composed of 16 gunboats, supported by three frigates and two ships of the line. Courageuse, supported by artillery fire from French-held forts, successfully fended off the attack.

In the fleet of Toulon, Courageuse took part in the Mediterranean campaign of 1798; after the Battle of the Nile, she was armed en flûte and ferried supplies for the French Army in Egypt and Syria.

Under Captain Trullet, Courageuse was part of the Syrian naval station under Rear-admiral Perrée. She ferried artillery and ammunition of the French Army besieging Acre; on 9 April 1799, she captured the British gunboat Foudre.

HMS Centaur captured Courageuse in the Action of 18 June 1799.

Fate
French sources report that Courageuse was used as a prison hulk for French prisoners at Port Mahon.

British sources report that the British commissioned HMS Courageuse under Commander John Richards. She served as a receiving ship until at least 1803. Alternatively, served as a receiving or prison ship at Malta where she was broken up in 1802.

Note
A few weeks after Centaur captured Courqageuse, HMS Alcmene captured the French privateer Courageux near the Azores. She may have come into Gibraltar and have been taken into service as HMS Lutine. She was sold for breaking up at the Peace of Amiens. The coincidence of two prizes with almost identical names being at the same place at the same time and both being taken into the Royal Navy in the theatre has resulted in some confusion of the vessels. The capture on 29 March 1800 of a Courageux that was taken into Minorca, and the existence in 1800 of a French naval brig at Toulon named Courageux only adds to the confusion.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_frigate_Courageuse_(1778)
https://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_ship&id=7555
https://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_ship&id=7554
 
and the last of the three original Concorde class was the

Hermione was a 12-pounder Concorde-class frigate of the French Navy. She became famous when she ferried General Lafayette to the United States in 1780 for support to the Americans in the American Revolutionary War. She grounded and was wrecked in 1793.

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An image of the French frigate Hermione in combat by Auguste Louis de Rossel de Cercy.

Career
Hermione was built in eleven months at Rochefort, by the shipwright Henri Chevillard as a light frigate, fast and maneuverable. Between May and December 1779 she underwent successful sea trials in the Gulf of Gascony under the command of Lieutenant de Latouche.

General La Fayette embarked at Rochefort on 11 March 1780 and arrived in Boston on 28 April carrying the secret news that he had secured French reinforcements (5,500 men and five frigates) for George Washington. After the dramatic failure of the Penobscot Expedition, a large military expedition to dislodge the British from their new stronghold at the confluence of the Bagaduce and the Penobscot River on the east bank of Penobscot Bay in Maine (an area later known as Castine), the revolutionary council of Massachusetts asked Latouche if he would be willing to sail to Penobscot Bay for a quick military intelligence-gathering cruise, checking on the strength of the British garrison at Fort George. Hermione then made the week-long voyage in mid-May, after which the frigate sailed to Rhode Island. Next, she got underway again on 2 June and suffered serious damage in the fierce but indecisive Action of 7 June 1780 against the 32-gun HMS Iris, under James Hawker.

Hermione received the American Congress on board in May 1781. She fought several times in company with Astrée, commanded by Lapérouse, especially at the Naval battle of Louisbourg on 21 July 1781.

After the end of the American Revolutionary War, Hermione returned to France in February 1782. She then formed part of a squadron sent to India to help Suffren against the British. However, peace was declared and the ship returned to Rochefort in April 1784.

Fate
Again in service against the British, on 20 September 1793, she ran aground off Le Croisic, and was then wrecked by heavy seas. The court-martial consecutive to the wreck found her pilot, Guillaume Guillemin du Conquet, responsible for her loss; her commanding officer, Captain Martin, was honourably acquitted.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_frigate_Hermione_(1779)
 
And finally the replica of the Hermione

The Hermione is a 32-gun Concorde-class frigate fitted for 12-pounder guns, completed in Rochefort by the Asselin organisation in 2014. She is a reproduction of the 1779 Hermione, which achieved fame by ferrying General La Fayette to the United States in 1780 to allow him to rejoin the American side in the American Revolutionary War.

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Construction
This project was conceived by members of the Centre International de la Mer in 1992, and construction began in 1997, envisaging a launch in April 2015 (as compared to the original, which took less than a year to build).

The shipyard was in one of the two dry docks beside the Corderie Royale at Rochefort.

As far as possible, traditional construction methods were used although modern power tools were substituted for the period tools on some jobs. The site is open to the public, and admission fees help fund the project.

English plans of a sister ship, Concorde, were used. The cost was estimated to be $22 million. The original plans had been modified in several ways for reasons of strength and safety: planks had been bolted rather than pegged to avoid movement during the long period of construction. Similarly, the mast sections were fastened with glue rather than metal hoops to avoid water penetration. The cannons are lightweight and non-functional to save weight, and for legal and safety reasons. Hemp rigging was used, and the sails made of linen.

An engine will be used for safety, and electric generators for lighting and basic amenities.

2015 voyage
In preparation for a transatlantic voyage in 2015, the frigate departed from Rochefort and started her seaworthiness trials on 7 September 2014.

In April 2015, Hermione started her return voyage to the United States. Hermione’s itinerary is meant to reaffirm the relationship between the United States and France.

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Hermione welcomed in US waters by USS Mitscher.
Hermione departed from La Rochelle on 18 April 2015.

2018 voyage

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French replica light frigate Hermione at New York South Street Seaport Pier 15, 1st of July 2015

On 2 February 2018, the Hermione undertook another voyage leaving Rochefort for the Mediterranean with 11 stopovers including Tangier, Sète, Marseille and Toulon.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_frigate_Hermione_(2014)
https://www.hermione.com/en/home/
http://hermione.free.fr/english/index_e.html
 
During the modeling days in Rochefort.....
The modeler Guy Tournier showed a 1:72 model of the L´HERMIONE, the 12pdr Frigate, based on drawings of Lemineur
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An interesting 3D work of the Hermione

 
This 3Dmodel is poorly built, if you enrage the view it will smuggle all the details, the gun barrels are not round as many parts. Ship boats don't have any details. The biggest problem is the figurehead, or I would say her existence. Hard to say what it is... This most likely for a game or who knows?
 
Dear Friends
I bought this monograph about a year ago, and I search and do not find a blog on our site or in others that displays in detail that includes photographs of the model building according to this monograph.
 
PLanset Review:
HERMIONE
12-Pdr frigate of the American War of Independence 1779-1793

in scale 1:48
by Jean Claude Lemineur with assistance by Patrick Villiers
Translated by François Fougerat

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This monographie is available from ancre in different languages, which can be choosen - English / French / Italian or Spanish

https://ancre.fr/en/monograph/78-hermione-monographie-9782903179908.html

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Size of the model in scale 1:48
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SYNOPSIS:

On March 10, 1780, The Marquis de Lafayette boarded Hermione on his way to the coasts of North America. He left to announce the arrival of royal troops to fight the English occupier on the side of the insurgents. The crossing was accomplished in the record time of 48 days. This performance was due to Hermione’s excellent nautical qualities. In fact, Hermione was a new-generation frigate built before the revolution. Started on the ways in December 1778, she benefited from important advances that were brought about by a new concept developed during the second half of the 18th century that translated into seagoing capabilities well beyond those of vessels built according to older designs. Like the other frigates of her generation she allied speed and firepower, allowing her to rival those of the Royal Navy. But what did Hermione look like?
Surprisingly, nothing specific remains concerning her, except for the information that she was constructed on the same plans as Concorde, built in 1777. As it turns out, Concorde’s lines were taken off by the Royal Navy after her capture in 1783, and the plans were kept at the NMM in Greenwich.
It is fair to believe that Hermione is similar. However, the plans reveal some peculiarities specific to Concorde, which is and not present on Hermione. Her battery is pierced for 14 gunports to each side, not counting the chase ports. The arrangement of the gunports, which is obviously different, results in a reduction of the quarter-galleries volume. Finally, between 1777 and 1783, the existing frigates were the object of many modifications that Concorde was not spared. What were they compared to the original? Did they also apply to Hermione? Although she was built on the same plans as Concorde, Hermione was distinguished by some notable differences in her overall aspect.
Her looks were thus undefined and remained to be discovered!
Gathering all historical and archeological elements, refering to different works dealing with contemporaneous naval construction and examining the plans of similar frigates, on the strength of his experience on the subject Jean-Claude Lemineur attempts to give to Hermione a look that is the most probably close to reality.


ORGANIZATION OF THE MONOGRAPH

An initial chapter is concerned with the nautical qualities that warships must have possessed. They were especially mediocre for vessels built during the 17th century and the fi rst half of the 18th because of the use of obsolete concepts. The new design concepts that were adopted toward the end of that period are described next, as well as the improvements in performance and sea-going capabilities that resulted.
A second chapter is the object of a detailed study of documents concerned with the architecture and characteristics of sister-frigates, a study that allows the identifi cation in a plausible manner, of the various poorly known aspects of Hermione.
Thirty-four plates, most of them with comments, provide a detailed picture of the ship.

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left the booklet and on the right the huge number of drawings

CONTENT of the BOOKLET

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I - THE FRIGATE OF THE AMERICAN WAR - A SUM OF THE NAVAL ART
Required nautical properties in a warship
Failure of the early architectural concepts
Early architectural concepts
Toward the new concept
A new design concept for frigates
From the 8-pounder to the 12-pounder frigate
New concepts and nautical performances
II - HERMIONE WHAT DID SHE LOOK LIKE?
The main architectural choices in 12-pounder frigates at the start of the conflict
The evolution of frigates after the 7-year war
Architectural characteristics of the frigates designed by the Chevillard brothers
PLan of the Aurore
Plan of the Charmante
Plan of the Concorde
Conclusions
Hermione´s decoration a stereotypic decoration
The use of Color
Note on coppering
Decoration of the stern
Hermione and her myth
III - ARTILLERY AND EQUIPMENT
Hermione´s artillery
Note sur la charpente
The rigging of 12-pounder frigates
IV - MONOGRAPH COMMENTS TO THE PLATES
Plates 17 to 34
Rigging rules
Miscellaneous / Nomenclature
V - ADDITIONS
Dates Reperes / Acknowldegements / Summary


CONTENT of the DRAWINGS

1. Schematic elevation
2. Schematic plan view
3. Vertical view of frames
4. Construction of the stern
5. Construction of the stern-frame
6. Construction of the hawse pieces I
7. Construction of the hawse pieces II
8. Profiles of aft frames 1 to 6
9. Profiles of aft frames 7 to 12
10. Profiles of aft frames 13 to 19
11. Profiles of aft frames 20 to 29
12. Profilles of the main frame and forward frames 1 to 5
13. Profiles of forward frames 6 to 11
14. Profiles of forward frames 12 to 18
15. Profiles of forward frames 19 to 24
16. Timbered elevation
17. Plan of the bottom of the hold
18. Between-decks plan
19. Timbering of the gundeck and castles
20. Gundeck and its furniture
21. Castles and their furniture
22. Lengthwise section
23. Cross-sections
24. Built-up elevation
25. Decoration of the stem and stern-frame
26. Artillery and furniture
27. Elements of furniture
28. Plans of masts and yards
29. Mast fi ttings
30. Mainmast masts and rigging
31. Foremast masts and rigging
32. Mizzen masts and rigging
33. Running rigging (1/72 scale)
34. Hermione under sail (1/72 scale)


Final Comment:

Not much to say, only - a wonderful complete planset and monographie of a technically and historical very interesting frigate.
As usual from the ancre publications - Highly recommended


LOOK INSIDE of the BOOKLET

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Explanations and Comments to the plates
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In the following post you can find the LOOK INSIDE of the drawing set ........ to be continued ......
Thank You
 
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