French frigate Audacieuse (1856)

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Name:Audacieuse
Namesake: "Audacious"
Builder: Brest [1]
Laid down: 1854 [1]
Launched: 22 January 1856 [1]
Decommissioned: September 1864 [1]
Out of service: 11 April 1879 [1]
Reinstated: December 1864 [1]
Fate: Deleted in 1872 [1]
General characteristics
Class and type: Ardente-class frigate [1]
Displacement: 1,960  tonnes   [1]
Length: 74 m (242 ft 9 in) [1]
Beam: 14.7 m (48 ft 3 in) [1]
Draught: 3.9 m (12 ft 10 in) [1]
Installed power: 2,650  ihp (1,980 kW) [1]
Propulsion: Steam engine, one propeller [1]
Speed: 8.5 knots (15.7 km/h; 9.8 mph) [1]
Complement: 530 men
Armament:

Audacieuse was an Ardente-class frigate of the French Navy.

Frigate Type of warship

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French Navy Maritime arm of the French Armed Forces

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Career

Audacieuse served between France and the Far East, notable ferrying ambassador Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros to China in 1857 and bringing guns from the Taku Forts to France. [1]

Taku Forts fortress

The Taku Forts or Dagu Forts, also called the Peiho Forts are forts located by the Hai River estuary in the Binhai New Area, Tianjin, in northeastern China. They are located 60 km (37 mi) southeast of the Tianjin urban center.

Legacy

The Musée national de la Marine in Paris has a model of Audacieuse on display. [2]

Musée national de la Marine maritime museum in place du Trocadéro, PARIS

The Musée national de la Marine is a maritime museum located in the Palais de Chaillot, Trocadéro, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. It has annexes at Brest, Port-Louis, Rochefort, Toulon and Saint-Tropez. The permanent collection originates in a collection that dates back to Louis XV of France.

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