For other ships of the same name, see French ship Uranie.
| French corvette Géographe | |
|---|---|
 Géographe and Naturaliste | |
| Career (France) |  |
| Name: | Géographe |
| Namesake: | Geography |
| Builder: | Honfleur |
| Laid down: | September 1794 |
| Launched: | 8 June 1800 |
| Acquired: | August 1800 |
| In service: | September 1800 |
| Fate: | 6 April 1819 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Serpente class |
| Displacement: | 350 tonnes |
| Length: | 40.3 metres |
| Beam: | 9.7 metres |
| Draught: | 3.8 metres |
| Propulsion: | Sail |
| Armament: | 24 12-pounder long guns |
The Géographe was a 20-gun Serpente class corvette of the French Navy. She was named Uranie in 1797, and renamed Galatée in 1799, still on her building site. Her builder refused to launch her, as he had not been paid to that time. Finally launched in June 1800, she was renamed Géographe on 23 August 1800.
On 19 October 1800, under captain Nicolas Baudin, she departed Le Havre with Naturaliste for an exploration of Australia. She returned on 23 March 1804, under Frigate Captain Milius, as Baudin had died during the expedition.
The ship was moored at Lorient from 1811, and was eventually broken up.
Model of Géographe now exhibited at the museum Ernest Cognac, in Saint-Martin-de-Ré
References[]
- L'Historique de la corvette 1650-1850 : monographie La Créole (1827), p. 31. In the Jean Boudriot collection, Archéologie Navale Française
- Ville de Honfleur: Municipal archives (in French): 2p in-folio: manuscript de Paris dated 6 March 1793 - an 2e de la république signé Monge
- Histoire de la ville de Honfleur: P.P.U. Thomas, 1840, p. 428 de l'édition originale (liste des navires construits à Honfleur de 1793 à 1812)
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.[page needed]
- Baudin, Nicolas; Cornell, Christine (1974). "The journal of post Captain Nicolas Baudin, Commander-in-Chief of the corvettes Géographe and Naturaliste, assigned by order of the government to a voyage of discovery". Libraries Board of South Australia. pp. 609. ISBN 0-7243-0043-0.
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