French frigate Nymphe (1811)
| History | |
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 France | |
| Name: | Nymphe |
| Namesake: | Nymph |
| Builder: | Nantes |
| Laid down: | January 1807 |
| Launched: | 15 January 1810 |
| In service: | 1 January 1811 |
| Out of service: | 1 September 1830 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Pallas-class frigate |
| Displacement: | 1080 tonnes |
| Length: | 46.93 metres (154.0 ft) |
| Beam: | 11.91 metres (39.1 ft) |
| Draught: | 5.9 metres (19 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 1,950 m2 (21,000 sq ft) of sail |
| Complement: | 326 |
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| Armour: | Timber |
The Nymphe was a 40-gun Pallas-class frigate of the French Navy, designed by Sané.
Career
In 1811, Nymphe was assigned to a frigate division under Joseph-François Raoul, along with Méduse, tasked to support Java. On 2 September, the frigates arrived at Surabaya, tailed by the 32-gun frigate HMS Bucephalus. On the 4th, another British ship, HMS Barracouta, joined the chase, but lost contact on the 8th. On the 12th, Méduse and Nymphe chased the Bucephalus, which escaped and broke contact the next day. The squadron was back in Brest on 22 December 1811.
She then served in the Atlantic.
Between 1814 and 1824, she was decommissioned in Penfeld, only undertaking a refit in 1822.
On 26 March 1824, she was recommissioned with the crew of Eurydice and sent to man the station of the Caribbean, and later of Brazil.
From 1832, she was used as a hulk, and was eventually broken up in 1873.
Notes and 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. 331. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.