A number of ships of the French Navy have borne the name Méduse, after the Medusa. The best-known is arguable the 1810 frigate , of Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa fame.
Ships , a 30-gun Roche, p.303 (1723), a 16-gun corvette , a 16-gun frigate , a 40-gun launched in 1782 and burnt by accident in 1797. She was the lead ship of the Méduse sub-type. , a frigate. , a 40-gun frigate launched in 1810 and wrecked in 1816. Her wreck inspired Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa. , a Roche, vol.2, p.338 (1916), formerly the Spanish trawler Torremolinos, purchased by the Navy and used as an auxiliary patrol ship. (1930), a launched in 1930 and wrecked in 1942. (1964), a support ship for minesweeping frogmen.
See also (1797), a galley captured at Venice. (1939), a minesweeper.
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