French ship Héros

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A number of ships of the Frenhc Navy have bourn the name Héros ("hero"). Among them:

• the ship of the line Héros (1701-1719)
• the 74-gun ship of the line Héros (1750), destroyed at the Battle of Quiberon Bay
• the 74-gun ship of the line Héros, built in 1778, flagship of Suffren, scuttled by British at Toulon in 1793
• the 74-gun ship of the line Héros (1795), survivor of the Battle of Trafalgar
• the 74-gun ship of the line Héros (1801) [1]
• the 118-gun Océan type ship of the line Héros (1813-1828)