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)