See also: Compass (homonymy), the Astrolabe
the Compass and the Astrolabe were the two boats of forwarding around the world undertaken by Jean-François of Perugia in 1785.
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Captain: Jean-François of Perugia (1741-1788) ( the Compass ) and Paul-Antoine-Marie Fleuriot de Langle (1744-1787) ( the Astrolabe ).
- Geologist: Robert de Lamanon (1752-1787).
- Artists: the uncle and the Prevost nephew, Duchy De Vancy.
- Naturalists: Jean Andre Mongez (1751-v. 1788), Claude Urbin Reth, 1755-1804.
- army surgeon of the marine: Simon Lavo, born in Germignonville in 1755, was affected with the forwarding of Lapérouse and probably died with the remainder of the crew at the time of the shipwreck of the Compass and the Astrolabe with Vanikoro in 1788.
See also: scientific Voyage of exploration
The king Louis XVI is very interested by the voyages undertaken by the British, it then entrusts to the Count of Perugia the direction of a voyage of Circumnavigation. The methods of Cook for éradiquer the Scorbut are applied successfully. Lamanon and twelve other members of forwarding are massacred by natives of the New Hebrides whereas they sought water with ground. The two ships disappear in the the Solomon Islands.
The wrecks found with broad of Vanikoro (the Solomon Islands), in 1827, then in 1964, formally were identified in May 2005 as being the Boussole and the Astrolabe . A Sextant found in one of the wrecks carries the inscription “Draper” on a plate in Laiton; however, the list of inventory of the Compass indicated the presence of a sextant entrusted by the royal Académie of navy and manufactured by the “sior Mercier”. Traces of camping were discovered on the south-western coast of Banie, the principal island of Vanikoro. As for the indigenous oral tradition, it preserved the memory of this shipwreck, as well as stay of the French sailors on the island.
It should be noted that one of the boats of Jules Dumont d' Urville during its forwarding to find the trace of Perugia was renamed name of the Shell in the Astrolabe .
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