French ship Lion

At least fourteen ships of the French Navy have been named Lion:

Ships named Lion

• Sauveur (1671), a 36-gun ship of the line, bore the name during her career ^[1]
• Canadien (1676), a 42-gun ship of the line, bore the name during her career ^[1]
• Écueil (1678), a 40-gun ship of the line, bore the name during her career ^[1]
• French fireship Lion (1694), a fireship ^[1]
• Lion (1751), a 64-gun ship of the line, lead ship of her class ^[1]
• Lion (1794), a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line renamed Marat before launch ^[1]
• French corvette Lion (1794), a corvette ^[1]
• Cassard (1795), a Vétéran-class 74-gun ship of the line, bore the name during her career ^[1]
• Lion (1804), a Téméraire-class ship of the line launched in 1804 and scuttled and burnt in 1809 ^[1]

• French gunboat Lion (1885), an Aspic-class gunboat ^[2]
• French trawler Lion (1916), an armed trawler, ex-Brazilian Ernestina ^[2]
• Lion (1918), an armed boat ^[2]
• French destroyer Lion, a Guépard-class destroyer launched in 1929 and scuttled in 1942. ^[2]
• Lion (1983), a Léopard-class training ship ^[2]

Other ships with similar names

• Lion britannique (1781), a 27-gun fluyt, ex-Briton Lion captured from the British ^[3]
• Lion Couronné (1643), a 28-gun ship of the line ^[3]
• Lion Couronné (1665), a 22-gun ship of the line ^[3]
• Éminent (1647), a 46-gun ship of the line, bore the name Lion de Smaland during her career ^[3]
• Lion d'Or (1665), a 24-gun ship of the line, also originally named Lion rouge ^[3]
• Serpent (1665), a fireship, bore the name Lion d'Or during her career ^[3]
• Lion rouge (1666), a 40-gun ship of the line, possibly the captured Turkish ship Al Assad el Ahmar. ^[3]
• Lion II (1917), an armed ketch ^[2]
• Lion II (1939), an armed trawler ^[2]

Ships named Lionne are at French ship Lionne.

Notes and references

References

1. Roche (2005a), p. 282.
2. Roche (2005b), p. 310.
3. Roche (2005a), p. 283.

Bibliography

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005a). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. Vol. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 282. ISBN   978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC   165892922.
• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005b). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. Vol. 2. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 20. ISBN   978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC   165892922.