French frigate Néréide (1836)
Appearance
Plans of Néréide
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History | |
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Name | Néréide |
Namesake | Nereid |
Builder | Lorient |
Laid down | 1 August 1828 |
Launched | 17 February 1836 |
Stricken | 1896 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 2154 tonnes |
Propulsion | Sail |
Armament | 52 guns. |
Armour | Timber |
The 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 struck in 1896.
Footnotes
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- Citations
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.