List of battleships of France
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This is a list of French battleships.
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Sail battleships (1410-1840)
For a more complete list for this period see: List of ships of the line of France- Marie la Cordeliere - burnt 1512
- Invincible 54 - captured by England 17 June 1694
- Hope 70 (ex-English Hope, captured 16 April 1695)
- Hazard 52 - captured by England 16 November 1704
- Auguste 54 - captured by England July 1704
- Magnanime 74 - wrecked and scutted 10 March 1705
- Fleur-de-lis 86 - wrecked 10 March 1705
- Arrogant 60 - captured by England 10 March 1705
- Ardente 66 - captured by Netherlands 10 March 1705
- Marquis 56 - captured by Netherlands 10 March 1705
- Pendennis 48 (ex-English Pendennis, captured 10 March 1705)
- Content 64 - sunk December 1706
- Gloucester 64 (ex-British Gloucester, captured 26 October 1709)
- Hampshire 50 (ex-British Hampshire, captured 2 November 1709)
- Foudroyant (1724)
- Boree (1735)
- Mars (1739)
- Tonnant (1743)
- Intrepide (1747)
- Magnifique (1749)
- Duc de Bourgogne (1751)
- Hector (1752)
- Guerrier (1753)
- Diademe (1756)
- Glorieux (1756)
- Ocean (1756)
- Minotaur (1757)
- Citoyen (1763)
- Impetueux (1764) (renamed Ville de Paris)
- Conquerant (1765)
- St-Esprit (1765)
- Bourgogne (1766)
- Bretagne (1766)
- Couronne (1766)
- Languedoc (1766)
- Marseillais (1766)
- Actif (1767)
- Bien Aime (1769)
- Destin (1770)
- Fendant (1772)
- Auguste (1778)
- Hercule (1778)
- Heros (1778)
- Neptune (1778)
- Magnanime (1779)
- Northumberland (1779)
- Triomphant (1779)
- Majestueux (1780)
- Royal-Louis (1780)
- Brave (1781)
- Illustre (1781)
- Hannibal 50 (ex-British Hannibal, captured 1781)
- Orient 74 - wrecked 7 September 1782
- Bizarre 64 - wrecked 5 October 1782
- Alexandre 64 - scuttled 1782
- Temeraire (1782?)
- Jean Bart (1788)
- Tourville (1788)
- Duguay-Trouin (1788)
- Tonnant (1789)
- Etats de Bourgogne (1790) (renamed Cote d'Or, Montagne, Peuple, Ocean)
- Suffren (1791) (renamed Redoubtable)
- Sans Culotte (1791) (renamed Dauphin-Royal, Orient)
- Commerce de Marseille - captured by the UK 1792
Wooden steam battleships (1841-58)
- Le Napoléon, first steam battleship in history.
Early ironclad battleships (1859-1878)
- Gloire Class
- * Gloire (1859), the first ocean-going ironclad in history.
- * Invincible (1861)
- * Normandie (1860)
- Couronne (1861)
- Magenta Class
- * Magenta (1861)
- * Solferino (1861)
- Provence Class
- * Flandre (1864)
- * Gauloise (1865)
- * Guyenne (1865)
- * Magnanime (1864)
- * Provence (1863)
- * Revanche (1865)
- * Savoie (1863)
- * Surveillante (1864)
- * Valeureuse (1864)
- * Héroïne (1863)
Early steel battleships
- * Redoutable (1876), the first warship in the world to use steel as the principal building material.
Pre-Dreadnoughts (1879-1910)
- Amiral Duperre (1879)
- Terrible Class
- * Terrible (1881)
- * Indomptable (1883)
- * Caiman (1885)
- * Requin (1885)
- Admiral Baudin Class
- * Admiral Baudin (1883)
- * Formidable (1885)
- Hoche (1886)
- Magenta Class
- * Marceau (1887)
- * Magenta (1890)
- * Neptune (1887)
- Carnot (1884)
- Charles Martel (1893)
- Massena (1895)
- Brennus (1891)
- Iena (1898)
- Jaureguiberry (1893)
- Bouvet (1896)
- Charlemagne Class
- * Charlemagne (1895)
- * Gaulois (1896)
- * St. Louis (1896)
- Henri IV (1899)
- Iena (1898)
- Suffren (1899)
- Republique class
- * Patrie (1903)
- * Republique (1902)
- Verite class
- * Liberte (1905)
- * Democratie (1904)
- * Justice (1904)
- * Verite (1907)
- Danton class ("semi-Dreadnoughts")
- * Voltaire (1909)
- * Diderot (1909)
- * Condorcet (1909)
- * Danton (1909)
- * Mirabeau (1909)
- * Vergniaud (1910)
Dreadnoughts (1911-1943)
- Courbet class
- *Jean Bart (1911) - renamed Océan 1936, scuttled 1944, broken up (BU) 1946-47
- *Courbet (1911) - scuttled 1944 during the Battle of Normandy
- *Paris (1912)
- *France (1912) - wrecked 1922
- Bretagne class
- *Provence (1913) - scuttled 1942, refloated 1943, scuttled 1944, refloated 1949, BU
- *Bretagne (1913) - sunk 1940, BU 1950s
- *Lorraine (1913) - BU 1954
- Normandie class (all except Bearn were scrapped after launching)
- *Gascogne (1914) - BU 1923-24
- *Normandie (1914) - BU 1924-25
- *Flandre (1914) - BU 1924
- *Languedoc (1916) - BU 1929
- *Bearn (1920) (completed as an aircraft carrier)
- Lyon class (not begun)
- *Duquesne (-)
- *Lille (-)
- *Lyon (-)
- *Tourville (-)
- Dunkerque class
- *Dunkerque (1935) - scuttled 1942, refloated 1945
- *Strasbourg (1936) - scuttled 1942, refloated 1943, sunk 1944, refloated 1945,
- Richelieu class
- *Richelieu (1939) - BU 1964
- *Jean Bart (1940) - BU 1970
- *Clémenceau (1943) - bombed 1944
- *Gascogne (-)
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