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.

Ships

• Méduse (1699), a 30-gun Hermione-class frigate[1]
• Méduse (1723), a 16-gun corvette[1]
• Méduse (1727), a 16-gun frigate[1]
• Méduse (1782), a 40-gun Danae-class frigate launched in 1782 and burnt by accident in 1797. She was the lead ship of the Méduse sub-type.[1]
• Méduse (1797), 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.
• Méduse (1904), a Naïade-class submarine[2]
• Méduse (1916), formerly the Spanish trawled 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]
• Méduse (1964), a support ship for minesweeping frogmen.[2]

See also

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

Notes and references

Notes

References

1. Roche, p.303
2. Roche, vol.2, p.338

Bibliography

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