French frigate Néréide (1836)

Plans of Néréide
History
France
NameNéréide
NamesakeNereid
BuilderLorient
Laid down1 August 1828
Launched17 February 1836
Stricken1896
FateBroken up 1896
General characteristics
TypeFrigate
Displacement2,154 tonnes
PropulsionSail
Armament52 guns

Néréide was a 52-gun frigate of the French Navy. She took part in the Battle of Veracruz soon after her commissioning.

As a transport, she took part in the Crimean War.

She was eventually decommissioned in 1887, and broken up in 1896.

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