High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Egyptienne, although French in origin, spent almost her entire life as a 40-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy in service from 1801 to 1817. Egyptienne was ordered (to the draught of the Forte) on 15 June 1798, and she was begun at Toulon on 26 September 1798. She was launched 17 July 1799 and put into service in November 1799. Egyptienne had allegedly been ordered originally as a 74-gun Third Rate of about 1,700 tons French, or 1900 English (the evidence is ambiguous), but while building she was modified into a heavy frigate of 1430 tons (English measurement), to the same design as the 1794-built Forte.

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