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French frigate Némésis at the Siege of Đà Nẵng, Vietnam in 1858. | |
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Name: | Némésis |
Operator: | French Navy |
Builder: | Brest Arsenal |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Artémise-class frigate[1] |
Tons burthen: | 2344 bm |
Length: | 52.5 m (172 ft) (lower deck) |
Beam: | 13.4 m (44 ft) |
Draught: | 6.1 m (20 ft) |
Depth of hold: | 7.05 m (23.1 ft) |
Propulsion: | Sail |
Sail plan: | Three-masted ship |
Complement: | 441 |
Armament: | Nominally 50 guns. |
The French frigate Némésis was an Artémise class screw-powered 50-gun second rate frigate of the French Navy in the 19th century. She was launched in 1847 at Brest, and participated in campaigns in Asia.
In 1857-1858, she was the flagship of Admiral Rigault de Genouilly during the Second Opium War,[2] and in Vietnam at the Siege of Đà Nẵng.[3]
She was used for harbour service at Lorient in 1866, and was scrapped in 1889.
Notes
^ Details after Boudriot, Jean, "Vaisseaux et frégates sous la Restauration et la Monarchie de Juillet" in Marine et technique au XIXe siècle.
^ Navies in Modern World History - Page 74
by Lawrence Sondhaus [1]
^ China and Her Neighbours; France in Indo-China, Russia and China, India... By R S Gundry Page 6 [2]
See also
- List of French sail frigates
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