French frigate Néréide (1836)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Néréide.

Plans of Néréide
History
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.

See also

• List of French sail frigates

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. 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.