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La Méduse | 21899 | ||
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| Nominal Guns | 44 | NNF-1800 | |
| Nationality | Empire Français | ||
| Operator | State Navy | ||
| Keel Laid Down | 11.1807 | NNF-1800 | |
| Launched | 1.7.1810 | NNF-1800 | |
| First Commissioned | 9.1810 | NNF-1800 | |
| How acquired | Purpose built | NNF-1800 | |
| Shipyard | Paimboeuf - Brittany | NNF-1800 | |
| Ship Class | Pallas Class (1805) | NNF-1800 | |
| Designed by | Jacques-Noël SanéFrench Naval Sailor Designer Ship Builder Administrator Service 1758-1836 | NNF-1800 | |
| Constructor | Mathurin CrucyFrench Ship Builder Service 1803-1809 | NNF-1800 | |
| Category | Fifth Rate | NNF-1800 | |
| Ship Type | Frigate | NNF-1800 | |
| Sailing Rig | Ship Rigged | NNF-1800 | |
| Wrecked | 7.1816 | NNF-1800 | |
The commander of Méduse is a noble royalist who has hardly sailed since the Ancien Régime . He begins the crossing by distancing himself from the other ships , which are slower than his own , and thus finds himself isolated . Not listening to the opinions of his officers who hate him (like the former Napoleonic soldiers on board and whom the monarchy is trying to get rid of) , he gives full confidence to a man named Richefort , a passenger claiming to have already traveled the area . He made a mistake in his estimate of the ship's position in relation to the Banc d'Arguin , an obstacle known to navigators .
Instead of circumventing it by passing offshore as his instructions indicate , he skimmed the shoals , until the inevitable happened on July 2 around 3 P.M .
The frigate ran aground on a sandbank a dozen leagues (60 kilometers) from the coast .
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| Dates | Fleet | Fleet Commander | Source | bef.17.6.1816-aft.17.7.1816 | Division for Saint-Louis , Senegal | Hugues Duroy de ChaumareysFrench Naval Sailor Service 1816-1817 |