''Jean Bart'' may refer to one of the following ships of the

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or privateers named in honour of

Jean Bart Jean Bart (; ; 21 October 1650 – 27 April 1702) was a French Admiral, naval commander and privateer. Early life Jean Bart was born in Dunkirk, France, Dunkirk in 1650 to a seafaring family, the son of Jean-Cornil Bart (c. 1619-1668) who has b ...

(21 October 1651 – 27 April 1702), a French naval commander and

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Naval vessels

* : a 74-gun

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(1791–1809) * : a 20-gun corvette, lead ship of her class, she sailed the Channel, the North Sea and the Atlantic as far as New York before and captured her in the Channel in 1795; taken into the

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as , but wrecked 1796 on the

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took into British service in September–October 1793 at Toulon, and put under the command of Lieutenant Cox. The British may have burnt her when they withdrew from the city. * : a British lugger of eight guns and 50 tons ( bm) that the French captured in August 1793; briefly renamed ''Joyeaux'' (1795–96), she was decommissioned in 1800 at Cherbourg. * : Launched at Bayonne in 1786 as a privateer, she was a 24-gun corvette of the

from 1794 that the

captured in 1795 and sold in 1797 at Jamaica. * : possibly requisitioned in 1803, she was armed in November and was decommissioned on 31 March 1807. * troop ship n°799 (1803–1806) * troop ship n°816 (1803–1806) * , a 74-gun

(1820–1833) * , an 80-gun ship of the line * The ship of the line was renamed ''Jean Bart'' in September 1868 * , a first class

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of 4,800 tonnes * , a 23,600 tonne

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; the first French

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* , the last French battleship completed, 40,000 tonnes and armed with 380mm/45 Modèle 1935 guns * (1988), an anti-aircraft

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, in service with the

from 1991 to 2021

Privateers

* French 20-gun privateer ''Jean Bart'', constructed at

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in 1778 and launched in January 1779. That year she cruised under the command of François Cottin. In April 1779 he and the owners of ''Jean Bart'' submitted a claim for salvage for the Swedish vessel ''Mercure'', which an English privateer had captured on her way from Saint Petersburg to

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, and which ''Jean Bart'' had recaptured 48 hours later. Cottin and ''Jean Bart'' captured numerous prizes, including an English vessel of 200 tons (burthen) and 10 guns, after an engagement of an hour and a half. captured her on 1 April off Dunmore after a fight of about three hours that left ''Delight'' with one man killed and two wounded. At the time of her capture ''Jean Bart'' had about 190 men on board. came up after and took ''Jean Bart'' into Plymouth. * French privateer ''Jean Bart'': captured the privateers ''Jean Bart'' and ''Jeune-Marie'' of Dunkirk on 21 February 1793. ''Jean Bart'' was armed with six 3-pounder and four

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s, and had a crew of 39 men. ''Ferret'' brought both privateers into Ramsgate. * French privateer ''Jean Bart'' captured on 9 March 1793 by the

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. * ''Jean Bart'' was a corvette of 500 tons (French; "of load", 20 guns, and about 180 men. She was commissioned in August 1794 and renamed ''Entreprise'' circa 1795. As ''Jean Bart'', this vessel, described as having 22 guns, may have been the vessel that participated in an inconclusive multi-ship action on 22 October 1794 with and , off Île de France. ''Enterprise'', under Captain François Legars, captured a number of British vessels in 1795–96, including the British

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's pilot boat . * French privateer lugger ''Jean Bart'', captured on 29 September 1797 by His Majesty's hired armed cutter . ''Jean Bart'' was built at Dunkirk in 1780. Before ''Telemachus'' captured her, she captured ''Fly'', which was sold for 185,806

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. * French privateer sloop ''Jean Bart'', captured on 16 May 1798 by . * French privateer ''Jean Bart'' of 100 tons, three guns (one a 16-pounder) and four

s, and a crew of 121 men. She made her first, and most profitable cruise, in May 1809. This cruise lasted for six months. Subsequent cruises were shorter, and none was as profitable. In all, she made four cruises during which she took a number of ships and earned for her shareholders a net profit of 366,408 francs. There is no record of what happened to her after the summer of 1811. * French privateer lugger ''Jean Bart''. On the morning of 1 September 1809, HMS ''Nassau'' was escorting a convoy of

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in the English Channel when she sighted a strange sail. ''Nassau'' sent her boats in chase and after two hours they were able to capture ''Jean Bart'' of

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. She was armed with four guns and had a crew of 25 men under the command of Louis Ollivier Pilvesse, Enseign de Vaisseau. She was five days out of the

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and had made no captures. * The French privateer ''Jean Bart'' captured ''Valetti'', Edward Motley, master, as ''Valetti'' was sailing from Malta to Bristol. In the four-hour action Motley and four of his men were wounded; ''Jean Bart'' had two men killed and seven wounded. * French privateer schooner ''Jean Bart'', captured on 23 February 1812 by . * French privateer ''Grand Jean Bart'', of Saint Malo, captured on 29 February 1812 by . After a chase of six hours, ''Semiramis'' caught up with the privateer, which was under the command of M. Benjamin Dupont. She was of 220 tons burthen, was armed with 14 guns and had a crew of 106 men. She was on her second cruise and had out-sailed several British frigates before; this had induced an over-confidence in M. Dupont, who had permitted ''Semiramis'' to approach too near before trying to escape.

Other vessels

* Ketch ''Jean Bart'' captured on 1 March 1800 by the hired armed cutter ''Suwarrow''. * French whaling vessel ''Jean Bart'' which visited the

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, departing out of Dunkirk in 1838 and anchoring at the

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in February 1839. On February 16, the day of arrival, Captain Gautraux committed suicide; subsequently his ship was burnt and the entire crew either drowned or was massacred by the local

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. Later that same year three other ships, the American whaler ''Rebecca Sims'' along with the French whaler ''Adèle'' and French naval corvette , returned to exact revenge. * is the name given to the replica of a 1670, 84-gun

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, that is being constructed by the Association Tourville at

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