French ship Redoutable

Nine ships of the French Navy have borne the name Redoutable ("Redoubtable"):

Ships named Redoutable

Redoutable (1749), 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 (1791), 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][Note 1]
Redoutable (1853), 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

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Notes

The Redoutables of 1801 and 1804 might actually be the same ship (Roche, p.373)

References

Bibliography

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. pp. 372–373. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. 2. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 250. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.

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