title: French ship Méduse
text: # French ship Méduse
  
  A number of ships of the French Navy have borne the name Méduse, after the Medusa. The best-known is arguable the 1810 frigate Méduse, of Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa fame.
  
  ## Ships
  
  * Méduse (1699), a 30-gun Hermione-class frigate
  * Méduse (1723), a 16-gun corvette
  * Méduse (1727), a 16-gun frigate
  * Méduse (1782), a 40-gun Danae-class frigate launched in 1782 and burnt by accident in 1797. She was the lead ship of the Méduse sub-type.
  * Méduse (1797), a frigate.
  * Méduse (1810), a 40-gun Pallas-class frigate launched in 1810 and wrecked in 1816. Her wreck inspired Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa.
  * Méduse (1904), a Naïade-class submarine
  * Méduse (1916), formerly the Spanish trawler Torremolinos, purchased by the Navy and used as an auxiliary patrol ship.
  * Méduse (1930), a Diane-class submarine launched in 1930 and wrecked in 1942.
  * Méduse (1964), a support ship for minesweeping frogmen.
  