French ship Trident

Last updated September 25, 2021

Several ships of the French Navy have borne the name Trident, after the Trident, often associated with the Roman God of the Sea, Neptune:

Trident (1666), renamed Mercoeur and condemned in 1697.
Trident (1671), condemned in 1686.
Trident (1688), captured by HMS Plymouth in 1695 and taken in service as HMS Trydent. Later renamed Trident Prize, she was sunk as a breakwater in 1702 at Harwich.
Trident (1695), broken up in 1720.
Trident (1742), captured in 1747 during the Second battle of Cape Finisterre and taken into service as HMS Trydent. Sold in 1763.
Trident (1811), condemned in 1857.
Trident (1876), an ironclad launched in 1876.

This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.

Related Research Articles

The Royal Navy has used the name Comet no fewer than 18 times:

Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Cumberland, after the traditional English county of Cumberland, England:

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:

Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Newport after the Welsh city of Newport:

Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Vigo, after the Battle of Vigo Bay.

Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Severn after the River Severn:

Numerous French vessels have borne the name Téméraire. Note that several British ships have had the same name, see HMS Temeraire.

Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Vesuvius or HMS Vesuve, after the volcano Mount Vesuvius. Another was planned but never completed, while doubt exists over the existence of another:

Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Lichfield, after the town of Lichfield in Staffordshire.

Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ruby:

Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Trident or HMS Trydent, after the Trident, often associated with the Roman God of the Sea, Neptune:

Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Shrewsbury, after the English town of Shrewsbury:

Twenty-two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Falcon. They are named after an exceptionally fast bird of prey.

Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Basilisk, after the Basilisk, a mythical lizard:

Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Winchester, after the English city of Winchester:

Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS St John:

Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Milford:

Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Hope:

Several ships of the French Navy have borne the name Content:

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.