French fluyt Égyptienne (1812)

Model of Égyptienne, part of the Trianon model collection
History
France
Name:	Égyptienne
Namesake:	French campaign in Egypt and Syria
Builder:	La Ciotat
Laid down:	March 1811
Launched:	7 January 1812
Fate:	Broken up in 1826
General characteristics
Class and type:	Licorne-class fluyt
Tons burthen:	800 tonnes
Propulsion:	Sail
Armour:	Timber

Égyptienne was a Licorne-class fluyt of the French Navy.

Built as Égyptienne under the First French Empire, the ship was renamed to Normande during the Bourbon Restoration. Again renamed Égyptienne during the Hundred Days, she sailed from Basque Roads to Santa Cruz de Tenerife on 17 February 1815, under Lieutenant Charmasson, to retrieve French refugees and bring them back to Lorient.

Renamed Normande again after the second abdication of Napoléon, she was rebuilt in 1816. After the Second Treaty of Paris restored the French colonies lost to Britain, Normande took part in the evacuation of the British soldiers that occupied them: from 25 to 27 November 1816, she ferried troops from Pointe-à-Pitre to Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago, as well as from Fort-Royal de la Martinique to Grenada, under Commander Ducrest de Villeneuve. She then crossed the Atlantic, ferrying passengers from Basse-Terre to Brest.

From 3 January to 3 March 1818, Normande ferried passengers and supplies from Île-d'Aix to Mauritius, as weel as to Saint-Denis and to Saint-Paul on Ile Bourbon (now Réunion). She returned to France carrying Marshal Bouvet de Lozier, former governor of Bourbon, as well as passengers from Saint-Paul and from Cape Town. By July, her command had passed to Commander Elie, and she was attached to the China Seas division under Captain Pierre-Henri Philibert.