French ship Bretagne
Six of ships of the French Navy have been named in honour of the region of Brittany.
Ships named Bretagne
[edit]- Bretagne (1766), a 110-gun three-decker ship of the line[1]
- Bretagne (1855), a 130-gun steam and sail three-decker [1]
- Ville de Bordeaux (1860), a 90-gun Ville de Nantes-class ship of the line, was renamed Bretagne when she replaced the 1855 Bretagne as a school ship.[2]
- Fontenoy (1858), a 90-gun Suffren-class ship of the line, was renamed Bretagne when she replaced the ex-Ville de Bordeaux as a school ship.[3]
- Bretagne, a battleship, lead ship of her class, sunk at Mers-el-Kebir
- Bretagne (2016), a European multi-mission frigate (FREMM) of the French Navy
- French submarine Saphir (S602), originally ordered as Bretagne in 1979, but renamed before commissioning in 1981.
Ships of the French Navy named Bretagne
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Scale model of Bretagne (1766), on display at Brest naval museum
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Layout of Bretagne, as depicted by Brassey's Naval Annual 1915
See also
[edit]- SS Bretagne - several ships named Bretagne, including
- SS La Bretagne, an 1886 ocean liner for Compagnie Générale Transatlantique
- SS Bretagne (1951), a 1951 ocean liner; rechristened SS Brittany in 1962. Destroyed by fire in 1963
- MV Bretagne (1989), a ferry-boat operated by Brittany Ferries
Notes and references
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[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- 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. 85. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
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