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The ''Astrolabe'' was a converted flûte of the French Navy, famous for her travels with Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse. She was built in 1781 at Le Havre as the flûte ''Autruche'' for the French Navy. In May 1785 she and her sistership ''Boussole'' (previously the ''Portefaix'') were renamed and rerated as frigates, and fitted for round-the-world scientific exploration. The two ships departed from Brest on 1 August 1785, the ''Boussole'' commanded by Lapérouse and the ''Astrolabe'' under Paul Antoine Fleuriot de Langle. ==Disappearance== The expedition vanished mysteriously in 1788 after leaving Botany Bay on 10 March 1788. The fate of the expedition was eventually solved by Captain Peter Dillon in 1827 when he found remnants of the ships the ''Astrolable'' and the ''Boussole'' at Vanikoro Island in the Solomon Islands. The ships had been wrecked in a storm. Survivors from one ship had been massacred while survivors from the other ship had constructed their own small boat and sailed off the island, never to be heard from again. 〔 ''Australian Shipwrecks - vol1 1622-1850'', Charles Bateson, AH and AW Reed, Sydney, 1972, ISBN 0-589-07112-2 p24 〕 The fate of La Perouse and his ships is the subject of a chapter from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「French ship Astrolabe (1781)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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