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To date, eight ships of the French Navy have borne the name of Suffren, in honour of the 18th-century French admiral Pierre André de Suffren.
Three ships of the French Navy have borne the name Latouche-Tréville in honour of the 19th century politician and admiral Louis-René Levassor de Latouche Tréville.
Seven ships of the French Navy have borne the name Protée, in honour of Proteus.
Fifteen ships of the French Navy have borne the name Minerve, in honour of the Greek goddess Minerva.
Eleven ships of the French Navy have borne the name Sibylle:
Twelve ships of the French Navy have borne the name Hermione, in honour of Hermione, daughter of King Menelaus of Sparta and his wife, Helen of Troy.
A number of ships of the French Navy have borne the name Méduse, after the Medusa. The best-known is arguable the 1810 frigate Méduse, of Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa fame.
Six ships of the French navy have bourn the name Créole in honour of Creole peoples.
Five ships of the French navy have borne the name Clorinde, in honour of Clorinda in Jerusalem Delivered.
Twelve ships of the French Navy have borne the name Licorne, the French word for Unicorn:
Five ships of the French Navy have borne the name Melpomène, in honour of the muse Melpomene.
Twelve ships of the French Navy have borne the name Thétis in honour of nereid and sea nymph Thetis:
Eleven ships of the French Navy have borne the name Diane in honour of Diana, goddess of the hunt, the moon, and nature in Roman mythology. In addition, two have borne the related name Diana:
Three ships of the French Navy have borne the name of Sané, in honour of the 18th-century French engineer Jacques-Noël Sané.
A number of ships of the French navy have borne the name Guerrière.
A number of ships of the French Navy have borne the name Astrée in honour of Astraea in Greek mythology.
Twelve ships of the French Navy have been named Cérès:
Twenty-two ships of the French Navy have borne the name Galatée or Galathée, in honour of Galatea:
Fifteen ships of the French Navy have borne the name Amazone ("Amazon"):
Ten ships of the French Navy have borne the name Nymphe:
References
Bibliography
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 41. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. 2. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 39. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
