History France 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.
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 .
In 1857–1858, she was the flagship of Admiral Charles Rigault de Genouilly during the Second Opium War ,[ 2] Siege of Đà Nẵng .[ 3] Bangka Strait .[ 4]
She was used for harbour service at Lorient in 1866, and was scrapped in 1889.
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^ Details after Boudriot, Jean, "Vaisseaux et frégates sous la Restauration et la Monarchie de Juillet" in Marine et technique au XIXe siècle .
^ Navies in Modern World History - Page 74 by Lawrence Sondhaus ^ China and Her Neighbours; France in Indo-China, Russia and China, India... By R S Gundry Page 6 [1] ^ "Mercantile Ship News". The Standard . No. 10380. London. 21 November 1857.
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