French ship Redoutable
List of ships with the same or similar names
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Nine ships of the French Navy have borne the name Redoutable ("Redoubtable"):
Ships named Redoutable
- Redoutable (1752), 74-gun ship of the line. She took part in the landing in Mahon under Admiral la Galissonière. She was destroyed in Lagos in 1759.[1]
- Redoutable (1795), a 74-gun ship of the line. One of her snipers killed Admiral Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar.[2]
- Redoutable (1800), an aviso captured by HMS Success on 26 June 1800.[2]
- Redoutable (1801) a coastguard.[2]
- Redoutable (1804) a xebec.[2][a]
- Redoutable (1855), an Algésiras-class ship of the line.[2]
- Redoutable (1876), the first warship in the world to be built in steel.[3]
- Redoutable (1928) (1930), lead ship of the Redoutable-class submarines before the Second World War[3]
- Redoutable (S611) (1971), first SNLE submarine of the French Navy, now a museum and the largest submarine in the world open to the public.[3]
Ships of the French Navy named Redoutable
- The 74-gun Redoutable (1795) at the Battle of Trafalgar.
- The ironclad Redoutable (1876)
- Ajax, sister ship of Redoutable (Q136) (1930)
- The nuclear submarine Redoutable (S611) (1971)