French Fifth Rate storeship 'Le Merinos' (1812)
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Le Merinos
22446
Nominal Guns
32
TRN5
Nationality
Empire Français
Operator
State Navy
Acquired
1812
TRN5
Shipyard
Unknown
TRN5
Category
Fifth Rate
TRN5
Ship Type
Storeship
TRN5
Captured
13.2.1812
TRN5
Armament
13.2.1812
Broadside Weight = 80 French Livre (86.336 lbs 39.16 kg)
TRN5
Upper Gun Deck
20 French 8-Pounder
Service History
Date
Event
Source
13.2.1812
Capture of the Merinos
13.2.1812
Taken by
Apollo (36)
1805-1856
British 36 Gun
5th Rate
Frigate
off Cape Sorso
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Name
Author
Type
TRN5
The Royal Navy : a history from the earliest times to the present Vol V
William Laird Clowes
,
Digital Book
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