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French ship Biche (1798)
Career (France) French Navy Ensign
Name: Biche
Namesake: hind
Builder: Brest
Laid down: April 1798
Launched: 18 August 1798
In service: September 1798
Struck: 1807
General characteristics
Class & type: Agile class schooner
Displacement: 65 tonnes
Length: 26 metres
Beam: 6.6 metres
Draught: 2.5 metres
Propulsion: Sail
Armament: 8 guns
Armour: Timber

The Biche was a 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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