At least four ships of the

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have borne the name ''Requin'': * , a cutter captured by the Royal Navy in 1795 * , a musket-armed ship operating out of Dieppe during the French Revolution, captured by HM-Cutter ''Lion'' * , a 16-gun brig-of-war captured by in 1808 during the Naopleonic Wars * , a launched in 1885 and stricken in 1920 * , a launched in 1924 and sold for scrap in 1944 * , a ''Narval''-class submarine completed in 1958 and stricken in 1985

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