French_ship_Lion

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French ship Lion

List of ships with the same or similar names

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 (1752), 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]

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