Marie Henri Daniel Gauthier, comte de Rigny was the commander of the French squadron at the Battle of Navarino in the Greek War of Independence.
Admiral de Rigny; portrait by François-Gabriel Lépaulle (1836)
Henri de Rigny, Vice-Admiral, Commander of the naval forces of France, in the seas of the Levant (painted lithograph by Philéad Salvator Lévilly, National Historical Museum of Greece, Engraving Collection).
The Battle of Navarino by George Philip Reinagle. The Battle of Navarino on 20 October 1827.
Henri de Rigny (lithography executed by Antoine Maurin in 1835)
Sirène was launched in 1823 as a Vestale-class frigate, which owed their design to Pail Filhon. In 1825 she was under the command of capitaine de vaisseau Marie Henri Daniel Gauthier, comte de Rigny,
La Sirène at the Battle of Navarino, 20 Oct 1827, drawn by George Philip Reinagle on HMS Mosquito