List of ships of the Free French Naval Forces

List of ships of the Free French Naval Forces

This is an incomplete list of the ships of the Free French Naval Forces.

Battleships


= "Courbet" class =

*"Paris" (obsolete)
*"Courbet" (obsolete) - scuttled during the Battle of Normandy

French-built escorts

* "Léopard" (Chacal class destroyer) - lost 27 May 1943


= "Le Fantasque" class =

* "Le Triomphant"

"Bourrasque" class

* "Mistral"
* "Ouragan"

Escorts leased by the British

* "La Combattante" (Hunt class destroyer) - lost 24 February 1945


= "Flower" class =

* "Aconit" (K 58) (ex. HMS "Aconite")
* "Alysse" (K 100) (ex. HMS "Alyssum") (lost 9 Feb, 1942)
* "Commandant d'Estienne d'Orves" (K 93) (ex. HMS "Lotus")
* "Commandant Détroyat" (K 183) (ex. "HMS Coriander")
* "Commandant Drogou" (K 195) (ex. "HMS Chrysanthemum")
* "Lobélia" (K 05) (ex. HMS "Lobelia")
* "Mimosa" (K 11) (ex. HMS "Mimosa") (lost 9 Jun, 1942)
* "Renoncule" (K 117) (ex. HMS "Renonculus" (K 117))
* "Roselys" (K 57) (ex. HMS "Sundew")


= "Cannon" class =

* "Algérien " - formerly USS Cronin (DE-107)
* "Hova "
* "Marocain "
* "Sénégalais "
* "Somali "
* "Tunisien"


= "River" class =

* "Croix de Lorraine" (K 258)
* "L'Aventure" (K 263)
* "L'Escarmouche" (K 267)
* "La Découverte" (K 370)
* "La Surprise" (K 292)
* "Tonkinois" (K 260)

Submarines

* "Rubis"
* "Minerve"
* "Junon"
* "Iris"
* "Curie" - formerly HMS "Vox" (P67)
* "Doris" - formerly HMS "Vineyard" (P 84)
* "Morse" - formerly HMS "Vortex" (P 87)
* "Surcouf"

Cargos

* "Fort Binger"
* "Franche Comté"
* "Indochinois"
* "Félix Roussel"

Sail ships

* "Étoile"
* "Belle Poule"

External links

* [http://perso.orange.fr/bertrand.daubigny/GueFNFL.htm LA FLOTTE DE GUERRE DES FNFL]


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