La Creole, 1650. Monographie

 The French corvette LA CRÉOLE was designed 1827 by engineer P. M. Leroux. On 5 May 1829 she was launched at the Cherbourg shipyard. She had a length of 39 m, width of 9,70 m, and was armed with 20 thirty pounder carronades and four eighteen pounder cannons. The crew were 150 men. A contemporary dockyard model of the ship today still stands in the Musée de la Marine in Paris.