The Henri IV was a 100-gun ship of the line of the
French Navy, named after
Henry IV of France. She was launched in 1848. Her shipwreck in a storm off
Sebastopol in 1854 marked the beginnings of French meteorology.
She also fought in the
Crimean War, including the
Siege of Sevastopol. A major hurricane took the Allied fleet by surprise off the coast of
Eupatoria on 14 November 1854, sinking the Henri IV and the corvette Pluton.[3] They were two of 38 French, Ottoman and British ships lost in November 1854. The sinking of the Henri IV proved a spur to French meteorological research.[4][5]
Bibliography
Frédéric Zurcher and Élie-Philippe Margollé, Les Naufrages célèbres, Paris : Hachette, 1873 - 3rd edition, 1877, chap.19, pp. 184–195
[1]
^Mohamed Ben Ali Doukkali, l'Histoire des Deux Rives [« Al-Ithaf Al Wajiz, Tarikh Al-Adwatayn »], Editions Maârif de Rabat, diffusion de la bibliothèque Sbihi, 1996 (2nd edition), 400 p., p. 337
^Élie Margollé, Les naufrages célèbres, Editions Ancre de Marine, 1872, 308 p.
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