French frigate Néréide (1836)
Appearance
Plans of Néréide
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History | |
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France | |
Name | Néréide |
Namesake | Nereid |
Builder | Lorient |
Laid down | 1 August 1828 |
Launched | 17 February 1836 |
Stricken | 1896 |
Fate | Broken up 1896 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Frigate |
Displacement | 2,154 tonnes |
Propulsion | Sail |
Armament | 52 guns |
Néréide was a 52-gun frigate of the French Navy. She took part in the Battle of Veracruz soon after her commissioning.
As a transport, she took part in the Crimean War.
She was eventually decommissioned in 1887, and broken up in 1896.[1]
See also
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ Winfield & Roberts p.111
References
[edit]- 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. 326. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S. (2015). French warships in the age of sail, 1786-1861. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-184832-204-2.