{"product_id":"1508741-france-medal-tour-du-monde-corvette-uranie-hemisphere-austral-1817","title":"France, Medal, Tour du Monde, Corvette Uranie, Hémisphère Austral, 1817","description":"\u003cp id=\"head\"\u003eHead of Louis XVIII, hair held back by a ribbon, to the right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp id=\"comment\"\u003eBust and medal signed by Gayrard. Two strikes were made for this event, by Gayrard and Andrieu. \nCreated for the departure of the round-the-world expedition of the corvette Uranie between 1817 and 1820, led by Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet. \nThe Uranie, built in 1811, was modified by Freycinet in 1816 in preparation for its upcoming round-the-world voyage. The ship, reclassified as a corvette, left the port of Toulon on September 17, 1817. It stopped at Gibraltar, then Tenerife, and stationed in Rio between December 1817 and February 1818. It crossed the Atlantic, passed the African tip, and stopped at Cape Town between February and April 1818, then anchored at Mauritius between May and July 1818. \nThe ship then sailed via Réunion before arriving on the west coast of Australia in September. From October until early 1819, the ship explored Southeast Asia (Coupang, Dutch East Indies, Diely, Timor, the Moluccas, then crossed the Carolines to the Marianas). \nBetween March and June 1819, the corvette explored the island of Guam and then sailed to the Sandwich Islands, where they stayed for the month of August. On October 21, 1819, the ship discovered Rose Island, named in honor of Freycinet's wife. \nFrom November to the end of December, the crew stopped in Sydney. On February 8, 1820, they passed Cape Horn: the Urania reached Tierra del Fuego but, due to an unexpected gale, ran aground on an unrecorded rock and was wrecked in the Falkland Islands. The crew and most of the scientific work on board were saved, and they were rescued by an American whaling ship after two months. Transported to the port of Montevideo, Commander Freycinet bought the whaling ship, renamed it the Physicienne, and set sail on June 7, 1820, for Rio before reaching the port of Le Havre on November 13, 1820.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp id=\"headCaption\"\u003eLOUIS XVIII ROI DE FRANCE ET DE NAV.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp id=\"reverseCaption\"\u003eHEMISPHERE AUSTRAL. \/ PHYSIQUE ASTRONOMIE \/ LA CORVETTE L'URANIE \/ Mr. Ls. DE FREYCINET COMMANDt. - S.A.R.Mgr. LE DUC D'ANGOULÊME \/ AMIRAL DE FRANCE - Mr LE vTE DU BOUCHAGE \/ MINISTRE DE LA MARINE - 1817.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp id=\"weight\"\u003e31.77 gr\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"cdma","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55856212115788,"sku":"1508741","price":300.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/1655\/7029\/files\/1508741A.jpg?v=1762363315","url":"https:\/\/www.numiscorner.com\/products\/1508741-france-medal-tour-du-monde-corvette-uranie-hemisphere-austral-1817","provider":"Numiscorner.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}