French frigate Melpomène (1828)
Melpomène was a Surveillante class 60-gun first rank frigate of the French Navy.
 Model showing characteristics and original painting scheme of Belle Poule, sister-ship of the French frigate Melpomène (1828). Model on display at Toulon naval museum. | |
| History | |
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| Name: | Melpomène |
| Namesake: | Melpomene |
| Builder: | Cherbourg |
| Laid down: | 17 may 1825 |
| Launched: | 28 July 1828 |
| Commissioned: | 1 March 1830 |
| Decommissioned: | 1 October 1833 |
| Out of service: | 1845 |
| Stricken: | 1870 |
| Fate: | Scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Surveillante-class frigate |
| Displacement: | 2500 tonnes |
| Length: | 54 metres (177 ft) |
| Beam: | 14.10 metres (46.3 ft) |
| Draught: | 3.80 metres (12.5 ft) |
| Propulsion: | sail |
| Complement: | 300 |
| Armament: |
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| Armour: | Timber |
Career
Melpomène was commissioned in March 1830, in time to take part in the Invasion of Algiers in 1830, and was decommissioned on 28 October after the events.
The next year, on 7 February, she was recommissioned amidst growing tensions with Portugal, and she took part in the blockade, and the subsequent Battle of the Tagus, under Captain de Rabaudy. Arrived the first French warship, she was also the last to depart.
Fate
In October 1833, she was again decommissioned, never to serve again. She was condemned in 1845, and used as a masting crane in Toulon under the name Travailleuse from 1865.
Notes, citations, and references
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Citations
Bibliography
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671 - 1870. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
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