French ship Duguay-Trouin
- French ship Duguay-Trouin
Ten vessels of the French Navy have been named "Duguay-Trouin" in honour of René Duguay-Trouin; among them:
* a 74-gun ship of the line (1781-1793)
* the 74-gun ship of the line "Dugay-Trouin" (1795-1805) captured by the British at the Battle of Trafalgar, renamed "HMS Implacable", was the oldest ship of the line after the "HMS Victory" when she was scuttled in 1948
* a 74-gun ship of the line (1813-1824)
* a 90-gun ship of the line
* an ironclad cruiser (1873-1899)
* a training cruiser (1900-1914) transformed into a hospital (1914-1920)on which Rupert Brooke died en route to the Dardanelles 23/04/1915, Trebuki Bay, Skyros.
* an 8000-tonne cruiser (1923-1952), lead ship of her class, which had a career in the Free French Forces
* the latest "Duguay-Trouin" was a F67 type frigate, decommissioned in 1999
* A "Barracuda" type submarine is schedule to bear the name
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