Nine ships of the
French Navy
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have borne the name ''Lys'' after the
Lilium
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, a flower featured in the arms of France as the
Fleur-de-lis
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The fleur-de-lis has been used in the ...
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* , a 54-gun ship of the line, was started as ''Lys'', and became ''Assuré'' from 1771.
* , a 70-gun ship of the line
* , a 84-gun ship of the line
* , a 70-gun ship of the line
* , a 64-gun ship of the line, lead ship of
her class
* (1780), a corvette, captured by the Royal Navy the year of her launching.
* , a 74-gun ship of the line. She was started as ''Commerce de Marseille'', and also bore the name ''Tricolore'' from 1792
* , a ''Téméraire''-class 74-gun ship of the line, became ''Lys'' in 1814 at the
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* Bourbon Restoration in France (1814, after the French revolution and Napoleonic era, until 1830; interrupted by the Hundred Days in 1815)
Spain under the Spanish Bourbons:
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* , a 90-gun ship of the line, was started as ''Lys'' in 1825, was renamed ''Ulm'' in 1830 after the
July Revolution
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, and completed as a steam ship in 1854.
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French Navy ship names