Bayard (1880) crossing the Suez Canal at Port Said while bringing the remains of Admiral Amédée Courbet back to France. Her spars are set diagonally, one mast perpendicular to another, as a sign of mourning.
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Nine ships of the French Navy have borne the name Redoutable ("Redoubtable"):
Four ships of the French Navy have bourne the name of Mutin :
Six of ships of the French Navy have been named in honour of the region of Brittany.
Seven ships of the French Navy have borne the name Astrolabe, after the instrument astrolabe
Five ships of the French Navy have borne the name Scipion in honour of Scipio Africanus.
Fifteen ships of the French Navy have borne the name Minerve, in honour of the Greek goddess Minerva.
Seven ships of the French Navy have borne the name Sans Pareil :
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.
Seven ships of the French navy have borne the name Iphigénie, in honour of Iphigenia.
Twelve ships of the French Navy have borne the name Entreprenant and four Entreprenante, after the French word for "enterprising"
A number of French ships of the French Navy have borne the name Alexandre in honour of Alexander the Great:
Six ships of the French Navy have borne the name Pégase, in honour of Pegasus.
Six French ships of the French Navy have borne the name Fantasque ("capricious"):
Three ships of the French Navy have borne the name Mytho or My-Tho, after the Vietnamese city of Mỹ Tho, to commemorate the Capture of Mỹ Tho in 1861:
Three ships of the French Navy have borne the name of Sané, in honour of the 18th-century French engineer Jacques-Noël Sané.
Six ships of the French Navy have borne the name of Borée, in honour of Boreas.
Five ships of the French Navy have borne the name of Proserpine, in honour of Proserpina.
Fifteen ships of the French Navy have borne the name Seine in honour of the Seine river:
At least seventeen ships of the French Navy have borne the name Triton:
Ten ships of the French Navy have borne the name Nymphe:
References
- ↑ Roche, vol.1, p.66
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. 142-143. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
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