French frigate Médée (1811)
For other ships of the same name, see French ship Médée.
 Clorinde, sister-ship of the French frigate Médée (1811) | |
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 France
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| Name: | Médée |
| Namesake: | Medea |
| Builder: | Genoa, Italy |
| Laid down: | 1810 |
| Launched: | 5 May 1811 |
| Decommissioned: | 1883 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Ariane class frigate |
| Length: | 45.5 metres (149 ft) |
| Beam: | 12.36 metres (40.6 ft) |
| Draught: | 5.9 metres (19 ft) |
| Propulsion: | Sail, full rigged ship, 1,950 square metres (21,000 sq ft) |
| Complement: | 325 men |
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| Armour: | Timber |
The Médée was a 46-gun frigate of the French Navy.
She took part in the Invasion of Algiers in 1830, and in the Battle of Veracruz in 1838.
In 1849, reconditionned as a hulk, she was renamed Muiron. She sank in 1883
Footnotes
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- Citations
References
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671 - 1870. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 303. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
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