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French frigate Néréide (1836)

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Plans of Néréide
History
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Name: Néréide
Namesake: Nereid
Builder: Lorient
Laid down: 1 August 1828
Launched: 17 February 1836
Struck: 1896
General characteristics
Displacement: 2154 tonnes
Propulsion: Sail
Armament: 52 guns.
Armour: Timber

The Néréide was a 52-gun frigate of the French Navy. She took part in the Battle of Veracruz soon after her commissioning.

As a transport, she took part in the Crimean War.

She was eventually decommissioned in 1887, and struck in 1896.


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