French ship Bretagne
Appearance
Six of ships of the French Navy have been named in honour of the region of Brittany.
Ships named Bretagne
- 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 Template:Sclass-, was renamed Bretagne when she replaced the 1855 Bretagne as a school ship. [2]
- Fontenoy (1858), a 90-gun Template:Sclass-, 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
- A FREMM frigate
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
- 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
- SS Bretagne - several ships named Bretagne
Notes and references
Notes
References
Bibliography
- 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.