The search for de Freycinet's ship L'Uranie.
In 1817 Captain Louis de Freycinet was appointed by the French Government
to lead a scientific expedition around the World in the Corvette L'Uranie.
They visited South America, South Africa, Mauritius, Timor, The Moluccas,
the Carolines, Australia, Tahiti and finally the Falkland Islands, where they were
wrecked.

They were eventually rescued by a passing ship and arrived back in France in
November 1820. Making this story doubly of interest, de Freycinet had secretly taken
Rose de Freycinet on board. Her subsequent book on the journey is one of
the very rare accounts of the life of a woman on board an exploration
vessel.

In 2001 the Western Australian Maritime Museum undertook a journey to the
Falkland Islands to find the remains of the Uranie.

This is the story of the Western Australian Maritime Museum's 2001 expedition
to find the de Freycinet's L'Uranie. It comprises excerpts from Michael McCarthy
and his teams report.