Several 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 in honour of
Anne Hilarion de Tourville. Among them:
* , a
74-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 ...
(1790-1833)
* , a Spanish 86-gun ship of the line ceded to France, bore the name ''Tourville'' from 1811 to 1816
* , an 80-gun ship of the line (1853-1872)
* , an
unprotected cruiser
An unprotected cruiser was a type of naval warship in use during the early 1870s Victorian or pre-dreadnought era (about 1880 to 1905). The name was meant to distinguish these ships from “protected cruisers”, which had become accepted in ...
built in the 1870s
* , a transport renamed ''Tourville'' in 1909
* An unbuilt (1914)
* , a
heavy cruiser (1928-1962)
* , a
F67 type frigate.
* A
Barracuda-class submarine is scheduled to bear the name
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French Navy ship names