Little French Corvette Traditional Cache
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Q: When is a corvette not a car?
A: When it's a small fast naval ship. It is traditionally the smallest class of vessel considered to be a proper (or "rated") warship.
Towards the end of the Age of Sail (16th to the mid-19th century) two little French navy corvettes were refitted for world-wide voyages of economic and scientific discovery and exploration.
Renamed La Boussole and L'Astrolabe, the two ships departed from Brest, France on 1 August 1785. The Boussole was commanded by French Naval officer Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse and the Astrolabe was under the command of Paul Antoine Fleuriot de Langle.
They sailed to Chile, Easter Island, the Sandwich Islands, Hawaii, Alaska, the west coast of Canada, California (USA), Macau, the Philippines, South Korea, Japan and Russia.
From there the expedition set sail again for the South Pacific, reaching Samoa where De Langle and a party of other crew members were killed. The ships made it to Tonga and Norfolk Island and finally the expedition continued to Australia, arriving off Botany Bay (Sydney) on 24 January 1788.
The expedition stayed in Botany Bay for six weeks before setting sail once more for New Caledonia and the Solomon Islands. However, the ships were never seen again until items from the wrecks were discovered in 1828 in the Solomons.
The suburb of La Perouse in Sydney's south is named after the leader of this French expedition
An Astrolabe was an instrument used for astronomy and navigation from about 200 b.c. until it was superseded by the sextant.
A boussole is a French word for "compass", but can also be a French verb which means to achieve or attain.
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