Six ships of the French navy have borne the name Annibal in honour of Hannibal
Hannibal Barca was a general and statesman from Ancient Carthage who is widely considered one of the greatest military commanders in history. His father, Hamilcar Barca, was a leading Carthaginian commander during the First Punic War (264–241 BC). His younger brothers were Mago and Hasdrubal, and he was brother-in-law to Hasdrubal the Fair, all also commanded Carthaginian armies.
A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed from the 17th through to the mid-19th century to take part in the naval tactic known as the line of battle, in which two columns of opposing warships would manoeuvre to bring the greatest weight of broadside firepower to bear. Since these engagements were almost invariably won by the heaviest ships carrying the most powerful guns, the natural progression was to build sailing vessels that were the largest and most powerful of their time.
The Annibal was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship of her class. She was designed by Jacques-Noël Sané, and was one of the earliest of his works. She was built at Brest in 1778.
The Annibal class was a class of two 74-gun ships of the French Navy. The type was one of the first achievements of Jacques-Noël Sané. His first design - on 24 November 1777 - was for a ship of 166 pieds length, but he produced an amended design on 10 January 1779 for the Annibal, and a further amended design on 3 March 1780 for her near-sister Northumberland. Both ships were captured during the Third Battle of Ushant on 1 June 1794 off Ushant, and were added to but never commissioned into the British Navy.
To date, seven ships of the French Navy have borne the name of Suffren, in honour of the 18th-century French admiral Pierre André de Suffren.
Four ships of the French Navy have bourne the name of Mutin :
Six ships of the French Navy have borne the name Borda in honour of Jean-Charles de Borda. From 1839 it has been a tradition that the main schoolship of the École navale, a repurposed capital ship, be renamed Borda in this role.
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 goddess Minerva
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.
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.
Three ships of the French Navy have borne the name Charlemagne in honour of Charlemagne
A number of ships of the French Navy have borne the name Invincible; among them:
A number of ships of the French navy have borne the name Guerrier.
Six ships of the French Navy have borne the name Pégase, in honour of Pegasus.
Seven ships of the French Navy have borne the name Andromaque in honour of Andromache, wife of Hector, daughter of Eetion, and sister to Podes.
Six French ships of the French Navy have borne the name Fantasque ("capricious"):
Twelve vessels of the French Navy have borne the name Auguste :
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:
Prince Jérôme was a late ship of the line of the French Navy. Started in 1827 as the Hercule-classHannibal, she was abandoned for nearly thirty years before being completed under the Second French Empire as a steam-powered ship of the line, under the name Prince Jérôme. Obsolete at the rise of the French Third Republic, she was renamed Hoche and struck shortly after. She was recommissioned in 1872 as a transport under the name Loire, and ended her career in 1885 as a hulk in Saigon.
A number of ships of the French navy have borne the name Guerrière.
Several ships of the French Navy have borne the name Gaulois ("Gaul"):
Two ships of the French Navy have borne the name Tilsitt in honour of the Treaties of Tilsit:
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