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French frigate Némésis (1847)
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The French frigate Némésis was an Artémise class screw-powered 50-gun second rate frigate of the French Navy in the 19th century. She was launched in 1847 at Brest, and participated in campaigns in Asia.
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![]() French frigate Némésis at the Siege of Đà Nẵng, Vietnam in 1858. | |
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Name | Némésis |
Operator | French Navy |
Builder | Brest Arsenal |
Launched | 14 April 1847 |
Fate | Scrapped 1889 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Artémise-class frigate[1] |
Tons burthen | 2344 bm |
Length | 52.5 m (172 ft) (lower deck) |
Beam | 13.4 m (44 ft) |
Draught | 6.1 m (20 ft) |
Depth of hold | 7.05 m (23.1 ft) |
Propulsion | Sail |
Sail plan | Three-masted ship |
Complement | 441 |
Armament | Nominally 50 guns. |
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In 1857–1858, she was the flagship of Admiral Charles Rigault de Genouilly during the Second Opium War,[2] and in Vietnam at the Siege of Đà Nẵng.[3] In 1857, she ran aground in the Bangka Strait.[4]
She was used for harbour service at Lorient in 1866, and was scrapped in 1889.