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	French ship Belle Poule (1828) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She was one of the first ships to be built in a covered shipyard, which allowed the builders to delay construction while the political and financial circumstances were not favourable.
		In 1844, Joinville, then vice-admiral, was sent to Morocco to support the action of General Bugeaud in Algeria, with the Suffren, the Jemmapes, the Triton, and the frigate Belle Poule.
		French ship Belle Poule for ships of the same name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/French_ship_Belle_Poule_(1828) (399 words)

	French Navy: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The mistral is an amphibious assault helicopter carrier of the french marine nationale, the fourth vessel to bear the name, and lead ship of her class....
		The tonnerre is an amphibious assault helicopter carrier of the french marine nationale, the fourth vessel to bear the name, and second ship of her class....
		The french mediterranean fleet is one of the two major forces of the french navy....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fr/french_navy.htm (1503 words)

	This song was based by it's authors on the exploits of HMS Arethusa, when she chased and gave battle to the French ship ...
		This song was based by it's authors on the exploits of HMS Arethusa, when she chased and gave battle to the French ship La Belle Poule in June 1778.
		French tactics, was to aim at the rigging with the hope of dismasting the ship, whereas the British struck soundly at the hull.
		This was also the situation for many ships after the battles of the Nile and Trafalgar, but such damage did not create a lost battle and in all these cases the British sailor won through.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /navysong/Data/S0024.HTM (530 words)

	Belle Poule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		the 26-gun frigate Belle Poule (1765), famous for her duel against the English frigate HMS Arethusa on the June 17, 1778, which started the French intervention in the American War of Independence.
		She was under command of François d'Orléans, prince of Joinville, and was painted fl for the mission.
		The modern schooner Belle Poule, training ship of the Naval Academy, whose actions with the Free French Forces during the Second World War are commemorated by her bearing a French flag with the croix de Lorraine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Belle_Poule (173 words)

	Busk's Navies of the World - 1859 - The French (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		French ships were usually similar to British ones in terms of size, 90 gun screw ships being around 5000 tons, typical large frigates around 3500 tons and 20 gun corvettes around 2,000 tons, and in armament.
		These two ships were famously bad sailors and as a result their sister ships were reworked to produce the Duguay-Trouin class of 90 gun auxiliary steamers.
		Most likely all of the 1st class frigates were begun as ships of the Belle Poule class with a displacement of 2550 tons, 54m40 long on deck, 14m10 beam, 7m10 depth of hold and 6m75 extreme draft.
	thomo.coldie.net /hole_html/france_1859.html (3352 words)

	Napoleon I of France Online Research :: Information about Napoleon I of France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		French Directory, although troubled by the scope and cost of the enterprise, readily agreed to the plan in order to remove the popular general from the centre of power.
		Napoleon knew the French fleet could not defeat the Royal Navy and therefore arranged to lure the British fleet away from the English Channel so that a joint Spain and French fleet could regain control of the Channel for twenty-four hours, enough for French armies to cross to England.
		Eventually the French army was pinned down by a force twice its size at the Battle of Leipzig (October 16 - October 19) at Leipzig.
	www.ncweddingplanner.com /search/Napoleon.html (5578 words)

	wooden model ships
		The Ville de Paris was a large three-decker French ship of the line that became famous as the flagship of the Comte de Grasse during the American War of Independence.
		As the flagship of the French Navy, Soleil Royal was sumptuously decorated with wooden carvings that depicted a variety of motifs symbolic of the French monarch.
		The ship saw little action, she was present in the Solent when the Mary Rose sank but appears to have been more of a diplomatic vessel, sailing on occasion with sails of gold cloth.
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	La Belle Poule (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Actually, the French had successfully deceived the British as to the destination of the Toulon fleet, and d'Estaing's force, which had departed the Mediterranean port nearly two months earlier, was in the West Indies in mid June.
		The French king, Louis XVI, elected to identify this incident as the opening of war between England and France, although a formal declaration was made months later.
		The resolute deportment of the La Belle Poule and its captain was applauded by the French population, and inspired celebrations in Paris.
	xenophongroup.com /mcjoynt/poule.htm (857 words)

	Model Ship Belle Poule 73cm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The "Belle Poule" was released from the squadron of Toulon in 1839 to join the fleet of Admiral Lalande.
		The "Belle Poule" had 60 cannons and was 54m long with a width of 15m.
		The "Belle Poule" is still considered to be one of the most representative ships in the French naval fleet.
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		On 16 June in the vicinity of Madeira she captured the French letter of marque JULIE pierced for 16 guns and bound for Cayenne from Bordeaux and brought her in to Plymouth on 9 July.
		AMAOON, AMPHION and DECADE were the three frigates which accompanied NELSON's ten sail-of-the-line in the pursuit of the French fleet to the West Indies in the spring and early summer of 1805 During a north-west gale on 31 August 1805, 250 miles west of Scilly, AMAZON fell in with the homeward bound Jamaica convoy.
		Part of the crew of the latter ship were found in the privateer together with a considerable quantity of specie.
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	HMS [Ship]
		The French burnt the two vessels that were aground, also three warehouses filled with spice, rice, and opium, and carried off a ship and two brigs, richly laden ; but not with entire impunity, as the Sémillante had two men killed by a shot from the shore.
		As the Marengo and Belle-Poule, with French colours hoisted, wore astern of the fleet, the Brunswick, by signal, kept her wind, and soon lost sight of her two companions and the enemy.
		Between a British 32-pounder 98, and a French 74-gun ship, the relative broadside weight of metal is not so unequal as might be supposed to exist between a three and a two decked ship, the one, in long guns only, being 958, the other 907 lbs.
	www.pbenyon.plus.com /18-1900/M/02892.html (1934 words)

	Research Collections Information Service Sheets at the Royal Naval Museum
		On 13 March 1806, the ship was part of a squadron under Sir John Warren that captured two French ships, Marengo and Belle Poule.
		In December, the ship was present at the reduction of the Dutch islands of St Thomas and Santa Cruz.
		In June 1814, the ship was part of a squadron conveying a fleet of transports to North America and he distinguished himself once again in expeditions to Alexandria and Baltimore.
	www.royalnavalmuseum.org /info_sheets_charles_napier.htm (2328 words)

	Ship Maneuvers - H.M.S. Surprise
		Belle Poule is already too far into the wind and has to wear, bringing it closer to Surprise [point 2 on Chart 3-1].
		At once the French ships "wore round on the opposite tack, slanting down southwards for the Indiamen" [Chart 5-1, point 1], suddenly crowding sail, and racing for a location four ships up from the rear of the line (point 2).
		POB states that at the time that Surprise is passing the third ship behind it, the position is thus [Chart 5-1, point 3]: "On the port bow a long mile away to the north-east" is Marengo.
	web.mit.edu /hwebb/www/surprise.html (3406 words)

	Jewett Texts
		I saw a ship at anchor in the road, which I was informed by the fishermen was the British ship of war Drake, of twenty guns.
		The ships met, and the advantage was disputed with great fortitude on each side, for an hour and four minutes, when the gallant commander of the Drake fell, and victory declared in favour of the Ranger.
		Whatever may have been the private conferences between Franklin and the French minister, the object which the commissioners had in view in common, was plainly to pacify the crew of the Ranger, to retain as many of her able seamen as were willing to serve, and to send her home after the exchange of prisoners.
	www.public.coe.edu /~theller/soj/ttl/jpj/sands.html (16043 words)

	Chart 3-1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Two of the French ships, Berceau and an unnamed brig, are too far southwest to appear.
		Ship tracks are given for four ships, Marengo, Belle Poule, Semillante, and Surprise.
		For relative speeds of the ships, I have Surprise with drag sail in water originally sailing slower than Semillante and Belle Poule, with Semillante slightly faster than Belle Poule.
	web.mit.edu /hwebb/www/Chart3_1.html (234 words)

	paris - monuments - tombeau de napoleon
		It is in 1840 that was decided by king Louis-Philippe the transfer the remains of the body of the Emperor.
		French sailors, placed under the command of prince de Joinville, bring back to his coffin to France to edge of the ship "Belle Poule".
		A national funeral accompanies the return of the Emperor Napoleon Ier and his cremation, ashes transferred to the Invalides on December 15th 1840, while waiting for the construction from the tomb.
	www.monument-paris.com /tombeau-de-napoleon.htm (285 words)

	Editions ANCRE
		The renaissance of the French military navy at the time of the American War of Independence was preceded by a great deal of research in the field of naval architecture and artillery.
		There were many 12-pdr frigates from which to choose, but the Belle-Poule was the obvious choice since she distinguished herself along with the lugger Le Coureur, as the first ship to be involved in combat action on 17 June 1778 during the Revolutionay War.
		History buffs and ship's model builders alike will be captivated by this narrative that documents an actual artillery duel between two ships of comparable strength.
	www.ancre.fr /vaisso17-e.htm (174 words)

	John Paul Jones - Extracts from my Campaign Journals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		First translated from the french and published in America in the very early 1800's, this rather thumping good yarn has fallen into obscurity because of its lack of historical accuracy, and is presented here for entertainment and for what light it sheds on the character of Jones.
		Since le Cerf had given chase to a ship the preceding day until it was lost from view, I had only the Bonhomme Richard, the Alliance, and la Pallas with la Vengeance, a small corvette of so little consequence she was hardly worth counting.
		I had wanted to wait for the ships from India for 15 days at the latitude of Limerick; but the captain of the Alliance, who pretended to believe the rest of the squadron were privateers, made a great deal of difliculty and then left me during the night.
	americanrevolution.org /jpj.html (18812 words)

	Fred's Place - The Place To Meet Old Coast Guard Shipmates
		The French from this region seem to see EAGLE as having been "liberated" by the Americans just as they themselves were.
		While each tall ship puts its best face forward, time and again our visitors commented that our tours, our cadets, our crews, and our ship were somehow just a little more special.
		French people testified that our officers, crew, and cadets were on their best behavior.
	www.fredsplace.org /images/eagle/071805 (2741 words)

	Ship Modeling FAQ, Research Note: HMS Surprise --- Revised: July 31, 2004
		On 4 October 1799 the French schooner NANCY was captured near Cape de la Vela.
		The forecastle was taken by half the force without much resistance but on the quarter-deck and the main deck there was dreadful carnage before the enemy retreated to the 'tween decks where the fighting continued until the enemy's ammunition was exhausted.
		Her captain, Don Romon de Chalas, said that she had been thoroughly repaired and was ready for sea with a ship's company of 321 officers and sailors, 56 soldiers and 15 artillery men.
	home.att.net /~ShipModelFAQ/ResearchNotes/smf-RN-HMSSurprise.html (471 words)

	Editions ANCRE
		This monograph of the brig LE CYGNE (The Swan) represents a ship's type of the imperial navy.
		90 feet in length, with a midship beam measuring 26 feet, 6 inches, a depth of 13 feet, 6 inches, this ship is one of the most representative of the brig called a 24-pdr in the French Navy (the caliber of the carronades in the main armaments).
		As is the case in our other monographs, the directions given allow the ship's model builder to choose between constructing a model of Le Cygne or one of her sister ships.
	www.ancre.fr /vaisso12-e.htm (453 words)

	Enthusiasms - 45
		The encounter was between the Arethusa and the French ship, La Belle Poule in June 1778.
		Though she was marginally a stronger ship, the Arethusa was, in fact, disabled, and La Belle Poule, whilst she sustained heavier casualties, sailed off.
		In all this, at least a general period of relevance in this song context, to French wars at the latter end of the eighteenth and at the beginning of the nineteenth centuries, and then the nature of each song, including The Arethusa, as paeon, were firmly established.
	www.mustrad.org.uk /enth45.htm (1950 words)

	Classic Kit List
		Heller is a French manufacturer of injection-molded kits which is owned by Humbrol Ltd., a British firm.
		They have a line of warships in 1/400 scale with a large selection of French ships (probably one of the few sources for these subjects) as well as German WW2 ships.
		There is also a line of 1/200 scale merchant ships and a line of classic sailing ships in a variety of scales.
	www.modelwarships.com /reviews/kitlist/heller.htm (116 words)

	The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence.
		Such a ship, aided as she was by two consorts of somewhat similar character, dominated the Lake as soon as she was afloat, reversing all the conditions.
		Drafts from the ships of war, and volunteers from the transports, furnished a body of seven hundred seamen for the same employment,—a force to which the Americans could oppose nothing equal, commanded as it was by regular naval officers.
		These ships seem to have taken their places skilfully without confusion, and their fire, which opened at once, was rapid, well-sustained, and well-directed; but their position suffered under the radical defect that, whether from actual lack of water, or only from fear of grounding, they were too far from the works to use grape effectively.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/6/6/0/16602/16602-h/16602-h.htm (13858 words)

	Irish to Argentine Ships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		'La Belle Poule' was a frigate, i.e., a three masts square-rigged war vessel intermediate between a corvette and a destroyer, which originally sailed as one of the vessels of the French Royal Navy.
		'Cest un nom curieux pour un voilier', but it was the third war ship of the French Navy with that name (which is a metaphor of the whims and charms sailors can find in the waves and the wind).
		It was built in 1834, and in 1840 she brought back the ashes of the Emperor Napoleon I from Sainte Hélène to France under the command of the Prince de Joinville.
	www.irishargentine.org /bellepoule.htm (176 words)

	FS2004 Misc Page 15
		Updated: Here is a nice schooner used for training of French Navy cadets.
		She is nearly 80 years old but still in use - such as her sister-ship "Belle Poule".
		This describes mother ship of Captains Yacht similar to Enterprise-E with nearly 700 m length.
	www.simviation.com /fs2004misc15.htm (415 words)

	Rigging Question and More - FineScale.com Forums
		The folks responsible for most of the Heller sailing ship range seem to have shared at least two characteristics: enormously talented artisanship, and a near-total lack of understanding of how a real sailing ship works.
		There were some differences between French and British ways of doing things, but on 1/200 scale they probably don't amount to much.
		Another book (one that might be in the local library) is Lundburh's "The Lore of Ships," which has some non-english rigging in it (and some references from Architectura Navalis) which can help show a number of the rigging options (which can look very similar to one another).
	www.finescale.com /FSM/CS/forums/549635/ShowPost.aspx (2623 words)

	The DiCamillo Companion - Database: History, Gardens, Movies
		The biscuit porcelain designed as table ornaments for the service are possibly the only examples to have survived from the 18th century together with the service for which they were designed.
		Woburn also has in its collection a Sévres Sugar Bowl and Tray (soft-paste porcelain, 1779) that resembles a ship with a mast flying a pennant and chickens on each end, much like those on the prow of a ship.
		The bowl was made to commemorate a naval encounter between England and France off the coast of Cornwall on June 17, 1778, when the British frigate "Arethusa" and the French frigate "La Belle Poule" engaged each other (both sides claimed victory).
	www.dicamillocompanion.com /houses_hgpm.asp?ID=2174 (1126 words)

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