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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.
Eight ships of the French Navy have borne the name Pluton in honour of the Roman god Pluto.
Six ships of the French navy have borne the name Annibal in honour of Hannibal
Numerous French vessels have borne the name Téméraire. Note that several British ships have had the same name, see HMS Temeraire.
Fourteen ships of the French Navy or the Galley Corps of the Ancien Régime or Empire have borne the name Couronne ("crown"):
The Océan-class ships of the line were a series of 118-gun three-decker ships of the line of the French Navy, designed by engineer Jacques-Noël Sané. Fifteen were completed from 1788 on, with the last one entering service in 1854; a sixteenth was never completed, and four more were never laid down.
The Téméraire-class ships of the line were a class of a hundred and twenty 74-gun ships of the line ordered between 1782 and 1813 for the French navy or its attached navies in dependent (French-occupied) territories. Although a few of these were cancelled, the type was and remains the most numerous class of capital ship ever built to a single design.
Five ships of the French Navy have borne the name Ça Ira in honour of the revolutionary anthem Ah! ça ira
Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Alert, while another was planned:
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 and at least one privateer have borne the name Jupiter:
Scipion was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
At least twelve ships of the French Navy have borne the name Superbe ("Superb"):
Ten ships of the French Navy have borne the name Éole in honour of Aeolus
Fifteen ships of the French Navy have borne the name Amphitrite, after Amphitrite, a Greek sea goddess.
At least fourteen ships of the French Navy have been named Lion:
Seven ships of the French Navy have born the name Illustre ("Illustrious")
References
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. 408. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
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