Eleven 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 ''Cassard'' in honour of
Jacques Cassard
Jacques Cassard (30 September 1679 – 1740) was a French naval officer and privateer.
Biography
Born on 30 September 1679 to a family of merchants of Nantes, Cassard began a career as a sailor at age 14 on the merchantmen owned by his fa ...
:
* (1795–1806), a renamed ''Dix-Août'' in 1798 and ''Brave'' in 1803
* ''Cassard'' (1801–1802), a small craft
*
''Cassard'' (1803–1815), a ''Téméraire''-class ship of the line launched as ''Lion''
* (1832–1850), a 20-gun
brig
A brig is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: two masts which are both square rig, square-rigged. Brigs originated in the second half of the 18th century and were a common type of smaller merchant vessel or warship from then until the ...
* (1846–1882), a steam corvette. She served as
Napoléon III
Napoleon III (Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was the first President of France (as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte) from 1848 to 1852 and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870. A nephew ...
's imperial yacht ''Reine Hortense''.
* (1860–1879), a
* (1866–1894), a
* (1898–1924), a
protected cruiser
Protected cruisers, a type of naval cruiser of the late-19th century, gained their description because an armoured deck offered protection for vital machine-spaces from fragments caused by shells exploding above them. Protected cruisers re ...
* (1933–1942), a
* , a (1956–1976)
* (D614), lead ship of the s, presently in active service
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French Navy ship names