French ship Méduse

A number of ships of the French Navy have borne the name Méduse, after the Medusa. The best-known is arguable the 1810 frigate Méduse, of Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa fame.

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• , a 30-gun Hermione-class frigate^[1]
• (1723), a 16-gun corvette^[1]
• , a 16-gun frigate^[1]
• , a 40-gun frigate launched in 1782 and burnt by accident in 1797. She was the lead ship of the Méduse sub-type.^[1]
• , a frigate.^[1]
• Méduse (1810), a 40-gun Pallas-class frigate launched in 1810 and wrecked in 1816.^[1] Her wreck inspired Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa.
• , a Naïade-class submarine^[2]
• (1916), formerly the Spanish trawler Torremolinos, purchased by the Navy and used as an auxiliary patrol ship.^[2]
• Méduse (1930), a Diane-class submarine launched in 1930 and wrecked in 1942.^[2]
• (1964), a support ship for minesweeping frogmen.^[2]

See also[]

• (1797), a galley captured at Venice.
• (1939), a minesweeper.^[2]

Notes and references[]

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Bibliography[]

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. Vol. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 241-242. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. Vol. 2. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 250. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.

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