A number of 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 ''Neptune'', or a variant thereof:
* (1610–1615), a
privateer
A privateer is a private person or ship that engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war. Since robbery under arms was a common aspect of seaborne trade, until the early 19th century all merchant ships carried arms. A sovereign or deleg ...
* (1628–1641), a 16-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 ...
* (1651–1655), a ship of the line
* (1666–1671), a 64-gun ship of the line, also known as ''Illustre''
* (1671–1679), a 36-gun ship of the line, also known as ''Beaufort''
* (1670–1702), a 40-gun ship of the line
* , a 46-gun ship of the line
* (1697–1699), a 24-gun
frigate
A frigate () is a type of warship. In different eras, the roles and capabilities of ships classified as frigates have varied somewhat.
The name frigate in the 17th to early 18th centuries was given to any full-rigged ship built for speed and ...
* (1705–1713), a 64-gun ship of the line
* (1716), a 74-gun ship of the line
* (1724–1747), a 74-gun ship of the line
* (1778–1795), a 74-gun ship of the line
* , 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 ...
* (1780–1782), a 6-gun
schooner
A schooner () is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast. A common variant, the topsail schoon ...
* , a 16-gun corvette
* , a
cutter
* (1795–1798), a
gunboat
A gunboat is a naval watercraft designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies.
History Pre-steam ...
* (1795), a
lugger
A lugger is a sailing vessel defined by its rig, using the lug sail on all of its one or several masts. They were widely used as working craft, particularly off the coasts of France, England, Ireland and Scotland. Luggers varied extensively i ...
* (1799–1799), a schooner
* (1801–1805),
troopship
A troopship (also troop ship or troop transport or trooper) is a ship used to carry soldiers, either in peacetime or wartime. Troopships were often drafted from commercial shipping fleets, and were unable land troops directly on shore, typicall ...
n°188
* (1804–1808), troopship n°262
* , a launched in 1804, captured by the Spanish in 1808 and renamed
* (1805–1814), a xebec
* , a
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 ...
launched in Venice in 1807, that the
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 in 1808 and that became HMS ''Cretan''
* ''Neptune'' (1811–1814), an unbuilt 110-gun
* (1839–1858), an 80-gun ship of the line
* (1892–1908), a
* (1914–1919), an auxiliary
minesweeper
A minesweeper is a small warship designed to remove or detonate naval mines. Using various mechanisms intended to counter the threat posed by naval mines, minesweepers keep waterways clear for safe shipping.
History
The earliest known usage of ...
* , an ex-German ship of the ''Reichsbahn''
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French Navy ship names