French ship Renommée
Thirteen ships of the French navy have borne the name Renommée ("Renown"):
Ships named Renommée[edit]
- Renommée (1653), a light 1-gun frigate.[1]
- Renommée (1661), a frigate.[1]
- Renommée (1665), a galley.[1]
- Renommée (1680), a galley.[1]
- Renommée (1690), a galley.[2]
- Renommée (1699), a 48-gun ship of the line.[2]
- Renommée (1745), a 32-gun Sirène-class frigate, captured in 1747 by HMS Dover, renamed as HMS Renown (1747) and broken up in 1771.[2]
- Renommée (1767), a 40-gun frigate.[2]
- cutter (1794), a 4-gun cutter.[2]
- Républicaine française (1795), a 32-gun Galathée-class frigate, bore the name Renommée during her career.[2]
- Dubois (1797), a 64-gun Victoire-class ship of the line, bore the name Renommée during her career.[2]
- Renommée (1808), was a 40-gun Pallas-class frigate that the Royal Navy captured in 1811 and renamed HMS Java; the USS Constitution captured her in 1813 and subsequently burnt her.[2]
- Renommée (1847), a frigate, converted to sail and steam propulsion in 1857.[2]
See also[edit]
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References[edit]
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. Vol. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. pp. 372–373. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
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