At least fourteen 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 been named ''Lion'':
Ships named ''Lion''
* , a 36-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 ...
, bore the name during her career
* , a 42-gun ship of the line, bore the name during her career
* , a 40-gun ship of the line, bore the name during her career
* (1694), a
fireship
A fire ship or fireship, used in the days of wooden rowed or sailing ships, was a ship filled with combustibles, or gunpowder deliberately set on fire and steered (or, when possible, allowed to drift) into an enemy fleet, in order to destroy sh ...
* , a 64-gun ship of the line, lead ship of
her class
* , a
74-gun
The "seventy-four" was a type of two- decked sailing ship of the line, which nominally carried 74 guns. It was developed by the French navy in the 1740s, replacing earlier classes of 60- and 62-gun ships, as a larger complement to the recently-de ...
ship of the line renamed ''Marat'' before launch
* (1794), a
corvette
A corvette is a small warship. It is traditionally the smallest class of vessel considered to be a proper (or " rated") warship. The warship class above the corvette is that of the frigate, while the class below was historically that of the slo ...
* , a 74-gun ship of the line, bore the name during her career
* , a ''Téméraire''-class ship of the line launched in 1804 and scuttled and burnt in 1809
* (1885), an
* (1916), an armed trawler, ex-Brazilian ''Ernestina''
* , an armed boat
* , a launched in 1929 and scuttled in 1942.
* , a
Other ships with similar names
* , a 27-gun fluyt, ex-''Briton Lion'' captured from the British
* , a 28-gun ship of the line
* , a 22-gun ship of the line
* , a 46-gun ship of the line, bore the name ''Lion de Smaland'' during her career
* , a 24-gun ship of the line, also originally named ''Lion rouge''
* , a fireship, bore the name ''Lion d'Or'' during her career
* , a 40-gun ship of the line, possibly the captured Turkish ship ''Al Assad el Ahmar''.
* , an armed ketch
* , an armed trawler
Ships named ''Lionne'' are at
French ship Lionne.
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French Navy ship names