Twelve vessels 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 been named ''Duguay-Trouin'' in honour of

René Duguay-Trouin René Trouin, Sieur du Gué, also known as René Duguay-Trouin, (10 June 1673 – 1736) was a French naval officer, nobleman, slave trader, and privateer best known for his career during the War of the Spanish Succession. He had a brilliant ...

. * (1781–1793), a 74-gun

ship of the line A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactic known as the line of battle, which depended on the two colu ...

* ''Duguay Trouin'' (1793–1794) was the

East Indiaman East Indiaman was a general name for any sailing ship operating under charter or licence to any of the East India trading companies of the major European trading powers of the 17th through the 19th centuries. The term is used to refer to vesse ...

''Princess Royal'' that the French captured in the Indian Ocean on 27 September 1793 and took into service as an ad hoc 36-gun frigate that they named ''Duguay Trouin''; the British recaptured her on 5 May 1794. * ''Duguay-Trouin'' (1794–1795/6) was a

tartane A tartane (also tartan, tartana) was a small ship used both as a fishing ship and for coastal trading in the Mediterranean. They were in use for over 300 years until the late 19th century. A tartane had a single mast on which was rigged a large la ...

that the French Navy requisitioned in 1794 to serve as an

aviso An ''aviso'' was originally a kind of dispatch boat or "advice boat", carrying orders before the development of effective remote communication. The term, derived from the Portuguese and Spanish word for "advice", "notice" or "warning", an '' ...

. The Navy renamed her ''Dangereuse'' in 1795 or 1796. The British

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...

captured her in 1799 and took her into service as HMS ''Dangereuse'', but then sold her in 1801. * ''Duguay-Trouin'' (1795–1805), a 74-gun ship of the line; the Royal Navy captured her at the Battle of Trafalgar. The British renamed her HMS ''Implacable'', and she was the oldest ship of the line after HMS ''Victory'' when she was scuttled in 1948 * (1813–1824), a 74-gun ship of the line * (1854–1872), a 90-gun ship of the line * (1877–1899), an iron-hulled

cruiser A cruiser is a type of warship. Modern cruisers are generally the largest ships in a fleet after aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships, and can usually perform several roles. The term "cruiser", which has been in use for several hu ...

* (1878–1922), a transport vessel launched in 1878, renamed ''Duguay-Trouin'' in 1900, then ''Borda'' in 1913, and converted into a

hospital ship A hospital ship is a ship designated for primary function as a floating medical treatment facility or hospital. Most are operated by the military forces (mostly navies) of various countries, as they are intended to be used in or near war zones. ...

. The soldier-poet

Rupert Brooke Rupert Chawner Brooke (3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915)The date of Brooke's death and burial under the Julian calendar that applied in Greece at the time was 10 April. The Julian calendar was 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar. was an En ...

died aboard en route to the Dardanelles on 23 April 1915 at Trebuki Bay,

Skyros Skyros ( el, Σκύρος, ), in some historical contexts Latinized Scyros ( grc, Σκῦρος, ), is an island in Greece, the southernmost of the Sporades, an archipelago in the Aegean Sea. Around the 2nd millennium BC and slightly later, the ...

. Renamed ''Moselle'' in 1922, and eventually scrapped in 1937 * (1923–1952), a light cruiser, lead ship of her class, which served with the Free French Forces * , a , decommissioned in 1999 * A Barracuda-class

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is scheduled to bear the name

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