French ship Boussole (1782)
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French ship Boussole (1782)
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Boussole was a former flûte of the French Navy, famous for its exploration of the Pacific under Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse. She was built in 1781–82 at Bayonne as the flûte Portfaix for the French Navy. In May 1785 she and her sister ship Astrolabe were renamed, rerated as frigates, and fitted for round-the-world scientific exploration. It departed Brest on 1 August 1785 under Lapérouse, accompanied by the Astrolabe under Paul Antoine Fleuriot de Langle. The expedition vanished
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2007-12-22T10:19:48Z
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2024-09-05T02:57:08Z
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