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French fluyt Étoile (1767)

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History
France
NameÉtoile
Namesake"Star"
BuilderNantes shipyard [1]
Laid down1759 [1]
Launched1762 [1]
Acquired4 August 1762 [1]
In serviceAugust 1762 [1]
Out of service1780 [1]
FateHulked 1780, last mentioned 1789
General characteristics
Class and typeFluyt used as storeship
Displacement480 tonnes
Length33.8 m (111 ft)
Beam9.1 m (30 ft)
PropulsionSail
Capacity8 officers and 108 men
Armament
Armourtimber

Étoile ("Star") was a fluyt of the French Navy. She was originally a merchantman named Placelière and was purchased by the Navy while still on the stocks. She was renamed Étoile in April 1763 and re-classed as a corvette. She is famous for being one of Louis Antoine de Bougainville's ships in his circumnavigation between 1766 and 1769, along with Boudeuse.

Career

Étoile was originally built between 1759 and 1762 as a fluyt named Placelière and was purchased while still on the stocks for King Louis XIV's Navy on 4 August 1762.[1] She was pierced for 20 guns.[2]

Étoile sailed to Rochefort on 22 December 1763. [1]

On 15 November 1766, Étoile departed Saint-Malo, along with Boudeuse, for an exploration voyage under Bougainville.[1] She was under Chenard de la Giraudais, and was the storeship of the expedition. She carried naturalist and physician Philibert Commerçon, astronomer Pierre-Antoine Veron, and Jeanne Baré, who was recognised as the first woman to have completed a voyage of circumnavigation. During much of the voyage, Baré was disguised as a man.[3][4]

In January 1771, Étoile was at Ile d'Aix under Cramahé.[1] In April, she was at Brest.[1]

On 1 January 1773,[5] Denis de Keredern de Trobriand was given command of Étoile in Lorient.[6] Between 1773 and 1777, she sailed to China and in the Indian Ocean.[1] In 1775, she was in Borneo, where Trobriand was offered two islands for France, the largest one being Lemukutan. Étoile surveilled the South-Western coast of Borneo. [7] During the voyage, Étoile received orders to mount a punitive expedition against Pangaram Serip, King of Koti, at the mouth of the Mahakam River, in retaliation for the massacre of the crew of the merchantman <i>Épreuve</i>.[8] Étoile attacked the port held by Pangaram Serip, along with the frigate <i>Indiscrète</i>, under Boucault, and Badine, under Le Veyer de Beuzidou,[8] destroying or capturing 31 ships, and killing around 300 people.[5]

Fate

In May 1779, she became a prison hulk in Lorient.[1] She is last mentioned in 1789.[2]

Citations

References

  • Demerliac, Alain (1996). La Marine de Louis XVI: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1774 à 1792 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 9782906381230. OCLC 468324725.
  • Dunmore, John (2002). Monsieur Baret: First Woman Around the World. Heritage Press. ISBN 0-908708-54-8. OCLC 936276913.
  • Ridley, Glynis (2010). The Discovery of Jeanne Baret. Crown Publisher New York. ISBN 0-307-46352-4. OCLC 1123839539.
  • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. Vol. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922. (1671-1870)

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