French frigate Némésis (1847)
- French frigate Némésis (1847)
The French frigate "Némésis" was a 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.
In 1857-1858, she was the flagship of Admiral Rigault de Genouilly during the Second Opium War, [ Navies in Modern World History - Page 74by Lawrence Sondhaus [http://books.google.com/books?id=tfHQejnlkLYC&pg=PA74&dq=N%C3%A9m%C3%A9sis+Genouilly&sig=ACfU3U1zeP275z3gmBStbYqGeQLqQLDPqw] ] and in Vietnam at the Siege of Đà Nẵng. ["China and Her Neighbours; France in Indo-China, Russia and China, India..." By R S Gundry Page 6 [http://books.google.com/books?id=OuK4czhDyLcC&pg=PA6&dq=N%C3%A9m%C3%A9sis+Genouilly&lr=&sig=ACfU3U1goQc-H9JK8FkgGMLkOCxPdnSb7Q] ]
She was used for harbour service at Lorient in 1866, and was scrapped in 1889.
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*List of French sail frigates
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