Maritime History

French frigate Médée (1741)

Médée was a 26-gun frigate of the French Navy launched in 1741. She is widely considered to be the inspiration for a long line of similar sailing frigates, and was the first ship captured by the Royal Navy in the War of the Austrian Succession. She became the British privateer Boscawen and was wrecked at St Ives, Cornwall, following a succession of gales in November 1745.

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See also

• ▸Montagu whaler
• ▸All That You Can't Leave Behind
• ▸French corvette Etna (1795)

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