French ship Bouvet

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Five ships of the French Navy have borne the name Bouvet in honour of François Joseph Bouvet :

  • A dispatch boat launched in 1865 and sunk near Haiti in 1871
  • A dispatch boat launched in 1876, struck in 1891
  • A battleship, the Bouvet
  • An auxiliary of the FNFL during the Second World War
  • A Fleet Escort (ranking destroyer), the Bouvet, launched in 1951 and struck in 1982.