French ship Bougainville
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Thirteen ships of the French Navy
have been named in honour of Louis Antoine de Bougainville
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French Navy
The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching...
have been named in honour of Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville was a French admiral and explorer. A contemporary of James Cook, he took part in the French and Indian War and the unsuccessful French attempt to defend Canada from Britain...
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- A privateerPrivateerA privateer is a private person or ship authorized by a government by letters of marque to attack foreign shipping during wartime. Privateering was a way of mobilizing armed ships and sailors without having to spend public money or commit naval officers...
(1797-1800) captured by on 14 February 1800, but the prize sank following a collision the next day. - A privateer captured by the frigate in June 1801
- A privateer captured by in March 1807.
- A brigBrigA brig is a sailing vessel with two square-rigged masts. During the Age of Sail, brigs were seen as fast and manoeuvrable and were used as both naval warships and merchant vessels. They were especially popular in the 18th and early 19th centuries...
captured by the British in 1809 - A brig-avisoAvisoAn aviso , a kind of dispatch boat or advice boat, survives particularly in the French navy, they are considered equivalent to the modern sloop....
(1830-1856) - A steam aviso (1858-1889)
- A colonial aviso Bougainville (1929-1940)
- An aviso (1875-1920), launched as the Allier and renamed in 1887
- A three-masted barque (1902), sunk by a German submarine in 1916
- A mobilised cargo (1914), captured by the Japanese in 1942
- A colonial aviso (1929-1940)
- An auxiliary cruiser (ex-Victor Schoelcher) sunk by the British in 1942
- The present Bougainville (L9077, in service since 1986) is a landing dock