French frigate Enjouée (1766)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Enjouée.

History
France
Name	Enjouée[1]
Namesake	"Joyful"
Ordered	28 May 1766[1]
Builder	Le Havre[1]
Laid down	May 1766[1]
Launched	4 November 1766[1]
In service	January 1768[1]
General characteristics [1]
Type	Frigate
Displacement	600 tons (French)
Length	42.2 m (138 ft) (overall)
Beam	11 m (36 ft)
Draught	5.1 m (17 ft)
Propulsion	Sails
Armament	26 × 12-pounder long guns 6 × 6-pounder long guns

Enjouée was an Infidèle-class 32-gun frigate of the French Navy, built on a design by Jean-Joseph Ginoux.

Career

Enjouée was tasked with testing one of the first marine chronometers, by Pierre Le Roy, to ascertain whether it allowed measurements of longitude precise enough for navigation, after preliminary testing on Aurore. The test was successful and Le Roy was awarded a prize in recognition of his invention.^{[2][Note 1]}

Enjouée was hulked at Brest in 1777 and broken up in 1783.^[1]

Notes

1. Further testing took place with the 1768-1769 expedition of Fleurieu on Isis, and the 1771 voyage of Borda and Pingré on Flore.^[3]

Citations

1. Roche, vol. 1, p. 175
2. Delacroix, p. 12
3. Martin-Allanic (1964), p. 1385, Note 11.

References

• Delacroix, Gérard (June 2000). Corvette l'Aurore, conçue par Nicolas Ozanne, réalisée par le constructeur Bonvoisin. Collection Archéologie navale française (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 2-903179-23-9.
• Demerliac, Alain (2004). La Marine de Louis XV: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1715 à 1774 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 2-906381-19-5.
• Martin-Allanic, Jean-Étienne (1964). Bougainville Navigateur et les Découvertes de son Temps (in French). Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. OCLC 729759706.
• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. Vol. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 350. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922. (1671-1870)