French ship Bretagne

Six of ships of the French Navy have been named in honour of the region of Brittany.

Ships named Bretagne

• Bretagne (1766), a 110-gun three-decker ship of the line ^[1]
• Bretagne (1855), a 130-gun steam and sail three-decker ^[1]
• Ville de Bordeaux (1860), a 90-gun Ville de Nantes-class ship of the line, was renamed Bretagne when she replaced the 1855 Bretagne as a school ship. ^[2]
• Fontenoy (1858), a 90-gun Suffren-class ship of the line, was renamed Bretagne when she replaced the ex-Ville de Bordeaux as a school ship. ^[3]
• Bretagne, a battleship, lead ship of her class, sunk at Mers-el-Kebir
• Bretagne (2016), a European multi-mission frigate (FREMM) of the French Navy
• French submarine Saphir (S602), originally ordered as Bretagne in 1979, but renamed before commissioning in 1981.

Ships of the French Navy named Bretagne

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  Scale model of Bretagne (1766), on display at Brest naval museum
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  Bretagne (1855), painting by Jules Achille Noël, National Maritime Museum, London.
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  Layout of Bretagne, as depicted by Brassey's Naval Annual 1915

See also

• SS Bretagne - several ships named Bretagne, including
  • SS La Bretagne, an 1886 ocean liner for Compagnie Générale Transatlantique
  • SS Bretagne (1951), a 1951 ocean liner; rechristened SS Brittany in 1962. Destroyed by fire in 1963
• MV Bretagne (1989), a ferry-boat operated by Brittany Ferries

Notes and references

References

1. Roche, vol.1, p.85
2. Roche, vol.1, p.467
3. Roche, vol.1, p.206

Bibliography

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. Vol. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 85. ISBN   978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC   165892922.