French ship Astrolabe (1781)
- French ship Astrolabe (1781)
The "Astrolabe" was a converted fluyt of the French Navy, famous for her travels with Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse.
She departed Brest on 1st August 1785 under Paul Antoine Fleuriot de Langle, along with the "Boussole" under La Pérouse.
The expedition vanished mysteriously in 1788 after leaving Botany Bay on 10 March 1788. The fate of the expedition was eventually solved by Captain Peter Dillon in 1827 when he found remnants of the ships the "Astrolable" and the "Boussole" at Vanikoro Island in the New Hebrides. The ships had been wrecked in a storm. Survivors from one ship had been massacred while survivors from the other ship had constructed their own small boat and sailed off the island, never to be heard from again. [ "Australian Shipwrecks - vol1 1622-1850", Charles Bateson, AH and AW Reed, Sydney, 1972, ISBN 0 589 07112 2 p24 ]
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