This is a list of French steam frigates of the period 1841-59:
Paddle frigates
- Asmodee 16 (1841)
- Gomer 20 (1841)
- Darien 14 (1842)
- Labrador 14 (1842)
- Ulloa 14 (1842)
- Cacique 14 (1843)
- Canada 14 (1843)
- Christophe Colomb 16 (1843)
- Eldorado 14 (1843)
- Magellan 14 (1843)
- Montezuma 14 (1843) - Wrecked and burnt, 1863
- Orenoque 14 (1843)
- Panama 14 (1843)
- Albatross 14 (1844)
- Descartes 20 (1844)
- Vauban 20 (1845)
- Caffarelli 12 (1847)
- Mogador 8 (1848)
Screw frigates
- Pomone 36 (1845)
- Isly 40 (1849)
- Bellone 36 (1853)
- Audacieuse 56 (1856)
- Foudre 56 (1856)
- Imperatrice Eugenie 56 (1856)
- Impetueuse 56 (1856)
- Souveraine 56 (1856)
- Ardente 56 (1857)
- Clorinde 36 (converted from sail 1857)
- Danae 36 (converted from sail 1857)
- Pandore 36 (converted from sail 1857)
- Renommee 40 (converted from sail 1857)
- Zenobie 36 (converted from sail 1857)
- Astree 28 (1859)
