Belle Poule (ship, 1834)
 The Belle Poule transfers the remains of Napoléon Bonaparte - Léon Morel-Fatio , 1841
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The Belle Poule (Eng. "Beautiful Hen") was a French frigate that was laid down in Cherbourg in 1828 according to the plans of the naval engineer Daviel . She was the third of four French military ships of the same name.
It can be compared with the American frigates Constitution and Constellation , created around 1800 , which are said to have served as a model. However, the Belle Poule outperformed both of them as additional sails were attached. She was very agile and had a special attack strength. The full ship was 54 m long, had three masts, 60 cannons and howitzers and took up to 500 men. Its displacement was about 2,500 tons.
history
The Belle Poule , construction of which began in 1828, was not completed until 1834. In 1839 the two- decker was dispatched from the Escadre de Toulon to join the forces of Admiral Julien Pierre Anne Lalande . During this time, a son of the "citizen king" Ludwig Philipp , François d'Orléans, Prince de Joinville , was the ship's commandant .
In the fall of 1840 the frigate Belle Poule brought a delegation led by Admiral Lalande and General Henri-Gatien Bertrand to the South Atlantic to transfer the mortal shell of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte from St. Helena to France. After deployments in the Indian Ocean , off the African coast and participation in the Crimean War , her service ended in 1888 in Toulon .
Web links
- History of Belle Poule - (French website)
Footnotes
- ↑ cf. L'histoire des Belles Poules (PDF), p. 2 ( Memento of the original of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ La goelette Belle-Poule
