The Aréthuse was a 40-gun frigate of the French Navy

French Navy

The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching...

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Started as Aréthuse, she was renamed to Elbe while still under construction. She was launched on 23 may 1808 and commissioned under captain Charles Berrenger

Charles Berrenger

Captain Charles Berrenger was a French Navy officer.- Biography :Berrenger started sailing in 1775, alternating between merchantmen, ships of the French Royal Navy and privateers...

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At the Bourbon Restoration

Bourbon Restoration

The Bourbon Restoration is the name given to the period following the successive events of the French Revolution , the end of the First Republic , and then the forcible end of the First French Empire under Napoleon  – when a coalition of European powers restored by arms the monarchy to the...

, she was renamed to Calypso, back to Elbe during the Hundred Days

Hundred Days

The Hundred Days, sometimes known as the Hundred Days of Napoleon or Napoleon's Hundred Days for specificity, marked the period between Emperor Napoleon I of France's return from exile on Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815...

, and to Calypso after the final demise of Napoléon.

She was struck in 1825.

Sources and references

• Les bâtiments ayant porté le nom dAréthuse, netmarine.net