French_frigate_Aréthuse_(1808)

French frigate <i>Aréthuse</i> (1808)

French frigate Aréthuse (1808)

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

The Aréthuse was a 40-gun frigate of the French Navy.

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Started as Aréthuse, she was renamed to Elbe while still under construction. She was launched on 23 May 1808 and commissioned under captain Charles Berrenger.

At the Bourbon Restoration, she was renamed to Calypso, back to Elbe during the Hundred Days, and to Calypso after the final demise of Napoléon.

She was struck in 1825 and broken up in 1841.[1]

Citations

  1. [1]
    Winfield & Roberts p.149

References

  • Les bâtiments ayant porté le nom d'Aréthuse, netmarine.net
  • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). "ARETHUSE - Frégate de 40 canons (1805 - 1807)". Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. Toulon: Roche. 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.
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