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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. She was built in 1781 at Le...
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  • Seven ships of the French Navy have borne the name Astrolabe, after the instrument astrolabe Astrolabe (1781) of La Pérouse (1781), a converted fluyt...
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  • 1781–82 at Bayonne as the flûte Portfaix for the French Navy. In May 1785 she and her sistership Astrolabe (previously the Autruche) were renamed and rerated...
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    François Edmond Eugène de Barlatier de Mas (category 19th-century French people)
    Barlatier de Mas was aboard the French ship Astrolabe on Jules Dumont d'Urville's expedition to the Southern Seas. The ships left Toulon on 7 September 1837...
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    sailing ships, employing square-rigged or fore-and-aft sails. Some ships carry square sails on each mast—the brig and full-rigged ship, said to be "ship-rigged"...
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    Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    2008, pp. 1–28. Novaresio, 1996. p. 181 "Lapérouse ships, Astrolabe and Boussole" " Daring French Explorations,1714-1854,Trailblazing adventures around...
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    French. Contrary to popular belief, the French did not have orders to claim Terra Australis for France and the arrival of the French ships Astrolabe and...
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  • Duc-de-Praslin. In 1774, as Lapérouse defended the besieged Mahé on the French ship Seine, Clonard was in command of a one-gun boat, which he used to attack...
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    Paul Antoine Fleuriot de Langle (category French Navy officers)
    as his deputy for his next expedition, commanding the 114-man frigate Astrolabe (accompanied by the Boussole) on a voyage of exploration into the Pacific...
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    HMS Pandora (1779) (category Porcupine-class post ships)
    that wrecked their ships Astrolabe and Boussole on Vanikoro's fringing reef. Heading west, making for the Torres Strait, the ship ran aground on 29 August...
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