French ship Astrolabe (1781)
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Astrolabe was a converted flûte of the French Navy, famous for her travels with Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse.
French Corvette Astrolabe
Chef d'escadre Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse was a French Navy officer and explorer. Having enlisted in the Navy at the age of 15, he had a successful career and in 1785 was appointed to
French ship Astrolabe (1781)
…Astrolabe was a converted flûte of the French Navy, famous for her travels with Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse. She was built in 1781 at Le Havre as the flûte Autruche for the French Navy. In May 1785 she and her sister ship Boussole (previously Portefaix) were…
Portrait by Geneviève Brossard de Beaulieu, 1778
Lapérouse commanded the frigate Astrée in the action of 21 July 1781.
Louis XVI, seated at right, giving Lapérouse his instructions on 29 June 1785. Louis XVI Giving His Instructions to La Pérouse by Nicolas-André Monsiau (1817). (Château de Versailles)
Easter Island in 1786