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French Ship Sans Culotte
Seven ships of the French Navy have borne the name ''Sans-Culotte'' in honour of the Sans-culottes: Naval ships named ''Sans-Culotte'' *French ship Orient (1791), ''Orient'', an Océan type 118-gun ship of the line, ''Océan''-class 118-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, initially named ''Dauphin Royal''. Famous for her role as flagship of the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile in August 1798, where she blew up spectacularly. She was launched at Toulon in 1791 and was briefly named ''Sans Culotte'' before being named ''Orient''. * French aviso Sans-Culotte (1793), ''Sans-Culotte'' (1793), an aviso. Also called Petite Sans Culotte (1793 tartane), ''Petite Sans Culotte'', she was a 2-gun tartane, or possibly brig-rigged aviso, launched at Toulon in July 1793 that the Royal Navy captured in August 1793 at Toulon and took into service as HMS ''Petite Victoire''. She was lost off Cap Corse in early 1794. * French corvette Sans-Culotte (1793), ''Sans-Culotte'' (1793–1794), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Navy
The French Navy (, , ), informally (, ), is the Navy, maritime arm of the French Armed Forces and one of the four military service branches of History of France, France. It is among the largest and most powerful List of navies, naval forces in the world recognised as being a blue-water navy. The French Navy is capable of operating globally and conducting expeditionary missions, maintaining a significant Standing French Navy Deployments, overseas presence. The French Navy is one of eight naval forces currently operating Fixed-wing aircraft, fixed-wing aircraft carriers,Along with the United States Navy, U.S., Royal Navy, U.K., People's Liberation Army Navy, China, Russian Navy, Russia, Italian Navy, Italy, Indian Navy, India, and Spanish Navy, Spain with its flagship being the only Nuclear marine propulsion, nuclear-powered aircraft carrier outside the United States Navy, and one of two non-American vessels to use Aircraft catapult, catapults to launch aircraft. Founded in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
