At least fourteen ships of the French Navy have been named Lion:
Ships named Lion
edit- 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]
- French gunboat Lion (1885), an Aspic-class gunboat[2]
- French trawler Lion (1916), an armed trawler, ex-Brazilian Ernestina[2]
- Lion (1918), an armed boat[2]
- French destroyer Lion, a Guépard-class destroyer launched in 1929 and scuttled in 1942.[2]
- Lion (1983), a Léopard-class training ship[2]
Other ships with similar names
edit- 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
editReferences
editBibliography
edit- 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.
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.