A number of ships of the French Navy have borne the name Eylau, in honour of the Battle of Eylau:
Six ships that were built for the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ocean. The name Ocean entered the list from which names are selected for British ships in 1759, when the Royal Navy captured the French ship named Océan. The British studied the French technology of this ship and admired it, but the ship had to be in bad shape before it would be replaced by a new-build.
Six ships and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Temeraire. The name entered the navy with the capture of the first Temeraire from the French in 1759:
The Royal Navy has had ten ships named Swiftsure since 1573, including:
Twelve vessels of the French Navy have been named Duguay-Trouin in honour of René Duguay-Trouin.
Fourteen ships of the French Navy or the Galley Corps of the Ancien Régime or Empire have borne the name Couronne ("crown"):
Nine ships of the French Navy have been named in honour of Abraham Duquesne:
Several ships of the French Navy have been named in honour of Anne Hilarion de Tourville. Among them:
A number of ships of the French Navy have borne the name Héros ("hero"). Among them:
17 ships of the French Navy have been named Rubis ("Ruby"), or Ruby as it was spelled until the 18th century:
Eleven ships of the French Navy have borne the name Foudroyant :
Five ships of the French Navy have borne the name Scipion in honour of Scipio Africanus.
Four ships of the French Navy have borne the name Ville de Paris, in honour of the city of Paris:
Seven ships of the French Navy have borne the name Vengeur ('Avenger'):
Six ships of the French Navy have borne the name Républicain ("Revolutionary"):
The Eylau was an 80-gun Bucentaure-class 80-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, designed by Sané.
Six ships of the French Navy have borne the name Sceptre after the sceptre, a symbol of royal or imperial authority.
Eylau was ordered as one of fourteen second-rank, 100-gun sailing Hercule-class ship of the line for the French Navy, but was converted to a 90-gun steam-powered ship in the 1850s while under construction. Completed in 1857 the ship participated in the Second Italian War of Independence in 1859 and the initial stages of the Second French intervention in Mexico before she was converted into a troopship in 1862 or 1863. Eylau was hulked in 1877 and served as a barracks ship until she was scrapped in 1905.
The Hercule class was a late type of 100-gun ships of the line of the French Navy. They were the second strongest of four ranks of ships of the line designed by the Commission de Paris. While the first units were classical straight-walled ships of the line, next ones were gradually converted to steam, and the last one was built with an engine.
At least seven ships of the Imperial Russian and Soviet Navies have been named Poltava after the Russian victory in the Battle of Poltava:
Ten ships of the French Navy have borne the name Éole in honour of Aeolus