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French Ship Requin (1752)
At least four ships of the French Navy The French Navy (french: Marine nationale, lit=National Navy), informally , is the maritime arm of the French Armed Forces and one of the five military service branches of France. It is among the largest and most powerful naval forces in t ... have borne the name ''Requin'': * , a cutter captured by the Royal Navy in 1795 * , a musket-armed ship operating out of Dieppe during the French Revolution, captured by HM-Cutter ''Lion'' * , a 16-gun brig-of-war captured by in 1808 during the Naopleonic Wars * , a launched in 1885 and stricken in 1920 * , a launched in 1924 and sold for scrap in 1944 * , a ''Narval''-class submarine completed in 1958 and stricken in 1985 See also * of the French Navy * Requin (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Requin French Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Navy
The French Navy (french: Marine nationale, lit=National Navy), informally , is the maritime arm of the French Armed Forces and one of the five military service branches of France. It is among the largest and most powerful naval forces in the world, ranking seventh in combined fleet tonnage and fifth in number of naval vessels. The French Navy is one of eight naval forces currently operating fixed-wing aircraft carriers,Along with the U.S., U.K., China, Russia, Italy, India and Spain with its flagship being the only nuclear-powered aircraft carrier outside the United States Navy, and one of two non-American vessels to use catapults to launch aircraft. Founded in the 17th century, the French Navy is one of the oldest navies still in continual service, with precursors dating back to the Middle Ages. It has taken part in key events in French history, including the Napoleonic Wars and both world wars, and played a critical role in establishing and securing the French colonial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cutter (boat)
A cutter is a type of watercraft. The term has several meanings. It can apply to the rig (or sailplan) of a sailing vessel (but with regional differences in definition), to a governmental enforcement agency vessel (such as a coast guard or border force cutter), to a type of ship's boat which can be used under sail or oars, or, historically, to a type of fast-sailing vessel introduced in the 18th century, some of which were used as small warships. As a sailing rig, a cutter is a single-masted boat, with two or more headsails. On the eastern side of the Atlantic, the two headsails on a single mast is the fullest extent of the modern definition. In U.S. waters, a greater level of complexity applies, with the placement of the mast and the rigging details of the bowsprit taken into account so a boat with two headsails may be classed as a sloop. Government agencies use the term "cutter" for vessels employed in patrolling their territorial waters and other enforcement activities. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hired Armed Cutter Lion
Two vessels have borne the designation, His Majesty's hired armed cutter ''Lion''. The first served during the French Revolutionary Wars, capturing five privateers and several merchant vessels. The second served briefly at the start of the Napoleonic Wars. Both vessels operated in the Channel. The two cutters may have been the same vessel; at this juncture it is impossible to know. French records report that the French captured the second ''Lion'' in 1808 and that she served in the French Navy until 1809. First hired armed cutter ''Lion'' This vessel served on a contract from 30 March 1793 to 27 January 1801. She was of 85 tons ( bm) and was armed with ten 3-pounder guns. She may have been built in 1789. She was commissioned under Lieutenant W.R. Davies. In late 1793 ''Lion'' served in a small squadron under the command of Sir James Saumarez in the frigate , together with the frigate and the brig . They convoyed some transports with troops for Jersey and Guernsey, and their pic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Narval-class Submarine
The ''Narval'' class (''sous-marins d'escadre'', "fleet submarines") were patrol submarines built for the French Navy in the 1950s. Design The ''Narval'' type was an offspring of the ''E-48'' project, inspired by the German Type XXI U-boats of the Second World War, particularly which were brought into French service. Compared to the Type XXI, the ''Narval'' class introduced an entirely new schnorchel system and novel detection systems, gained 33% in operational range on electric power (, compared to the available to the type XXI), and doubled the test depth. The propellers were also particularly studied to minimise noise. The hulls of the ''Narval''s were assembled from seven sections welded together. The engine were two-stroke diesels made by the French constructor Schneider, which proved unreliable and noisy to the point where the engine section became difficult to man at full power. From 1966 to 1970, the ''Narval''s underwent extensive modernisation, where their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Requin (other)
Requin, shark in French (pl : requins), may refer to : Places * Great Requin River, a river of Grenada * Little Requin River, a river of Grenada People * Édouard Réquin (1879–1953), French soldier * Steve Requin (born 1968), a Canadian cartoonist from Québec * Michèle Bernard-Requin (1943–2019), French lawyer and magistrate * Abderrahim Chafay (born 1977; stagename ''Requin''), Moroccan-French Muay Thai kickboxer. Ships * French ship Requin, a French Navy shipname * Requin-class submarine, a class of submarines of French navy in the mid-1920s ** French submarine Requin (1924) * USS Requin (SS-481), a United States Navy Tench-class submarine * a French submarine seized by Italy during World War II and converted into a cargo submarine * − brig of the French Navy launched in 1794 that the British Royal Navy captured in 1795 and that was wrecked in 1801. Entertainment * ''The Shark'' (1930 film), French film originally released as ''Le Requin'' * ''The Requin'' (film), 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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