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.
A large number of ships of the French Navy have borne the name Argonaute in honour of the mythological navigators argonauts. Among them:
Numerous French vessels have borne the name Téméraire. Note that several British ships have had the same name, see HMS Temeraire.
Dupetit Thouars could refer to any of the following French names:
Seventeen ships of the French Navy have been named Rubis ("Ruby"), or Ruby as it was spelled until the 18th century:
Five ships of the French Navy have borne the name Bouvet in honour of François Joseph Bouvet.
Triomphant was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. Built in Rochefort in 1804, she was launched in 1809. She was converted to a hulk in 1828.
The Foudroyant ("Lightning") was a Tonnant-class 80-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Three ships of the French Navy have borne the name Brézé or Maillé Brézé in honour of admiral Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé:
Jean Bart was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Eleven ships of the French Navy have borne the name Aréthuse in honour of the nymph Arethusa:
Eight ships of the French Navy have borne the name Tonnerre ("thunder"):
The Donawerth was a 90-gun Suffren class ship of the line of the French Navy.
Galathée was a 32-gun frigate of the French Navy, lead ship of her class.
Eight ships of the French Navy have borne the name Psyché:
Dupetit-Thouars was a Gueydon-class armoured cruiser of the French Navy. She was torpedoed and sunk on 7 August 1918 by SM U-62 with the loss of 13 of her crew.
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:
The French submarine Dauphin was a Reqin -class submarine built for the French Navy in the mid-1920s. Laid down in December 1922, it was launched in April 1925 and commissioned in November 1927. It was captured by Italian forces on 8 December 1942 and renamed FR 115. It was later recaptured by the Germans on 9 September 1943, then scuttled on 15 September 1943. The name Dauphin comes from the French word for Dolphin.
The French submarine Morse was a Requin-class submarine built for the French Navy in the mid-1920s. Laid down in February 1923, it was launched in May 1925 and commissioned in February 1928. On 16 June 1940, Morse, under the command of Jean Georges Charles Paris, struck a mine and sank in the same minefield off the Kerkennah Islands that sank her sister ship Narval six months later.
The French submarine Requin was the lead ship of the Requin-class submarines built for the French Navy in the mid-1920s. Laid down in June 1922, it was launched in July 1924 and commissioned in May 1926. It was captured by Italian forces at Bizerte, Tunisia on 8 December 1942 and renamed FR 113. On 9 September 1943, it was recaptured by German forces. It was sold for scrap in Genes, Italy in 1944.
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