Current French Navy ships

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This is a list of currently operating ships of the French Navy.

Contents 1 Aircraft carriers 2 Projection and command vessels 3 Helicopter cruiser 4 Submarines 4.1 SNLE (SSBN) 4.2 SNA (SSN Nuclear attack submarines) 5 First rank frigates (destroyers) 6 Second rank frigates 7 Avisos 8 Patrol ships 9 Mine Sweepers 10 Landing Platform Dock (LPD) 11 Light transport ships 12 Landing crafts 13 High Sea Tugs 14 Trial, experimentation and intelligence ships 15 Hydrography and Oceanography 16 Support ships 17 School ships

[edit] Aircraft carriers

• Charles de Gaulle

The Charles de Gaulle nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

[edit] Projection and command vessels

• Mistral class - 2 ships
  • Mistral
  • Tonnerre

Mistral Projection and Command vessel.

[edit] Helicopter cruiser

• Jeanne d'Arc

[edit] Submarines

[edit] SNLE (SSBN)

• SNLE (Le Redoutable class) - 1 ships
  • S615 L'Inflexible
• SNLE-NG (Le Triomphant class) - 3 ships
  • S616 Le Triomphant
  • S617 Le Téméraire
  • S618 Le Vigilant

SNLE (Le Redoutable class)

SNLE-NG (Le Triomphant class)

[edit] SNA (SSN Nuclear attack submarines)

• Rubis class - 6 ships
  • S601 Rubis (ex-Provence)
  • S602 Saphir (ex-Bretagne)
  • S603 Casabianca (ex-Bourgogne)
  • S604 Émeraude
  • S605 Améthyste
  • S606 Perle

Rubis class submarine.]]

[edit] First rank frigates (destroyers)

The French Navy does not use the term "destroyer"; thus, some large ships of the first rank (like Horizon) are designated "frigates", though they are registered and operate as destroyers (with hull numbers "Dxxx").

FORBIN (Horizon class)

• Cassard class - 2 ships
  • D614 Cassard
  • D615 Jean Bart

• Suffren class - 1 ship
  • D603 Duquesne

• Georges Leygues class (F70 type) - 7 ships
  • D640 Georges Leygues
  • D641 Dupleix
  • D642 Montcalm
  • D643 Jean de Vienne
  • D644 Primauguet
  • D645 La Motte Picquet
  • D646 Latouche-Tréville

• Tourville class (F67 type) - 2 ships
  • D610 Tourville
  • D612 De Grasse

Horizon class frigate.	Suffren' class frigate.	Cassard' class frigate.	F67 type frigate.
F70 type frigate.

[edit] Second rank frigates

• La Fayette class - 5 ships
  • F710 La Fayette
  • F711 Surcouf
  • F712 Courbet
  • F713 Aconit
  • F714 Guépratte
• Floréal class - 6 ships
  • F730 Floréal
  • F731 Prairial
  • F732 Nivôse
  • F733 Ventôse
  • F734 Vendémiaire
  • F735 Germinal

La Fayette class stealth frigate.

Floréal class frigate.

[edit] Avisos

Like for their destroyers, French Navy use the term "avisos" for some of their second rank frigates. (numbers "Fxxx").

• D'Estienne d'Orves A69 class - 9 ships
  • F788 Second-Maître Le Bihan
  • F789 Lieutenant de vaisseau Le Hénaff
  • F790 Lieutenant de vaisseau Lavallée
  • F791 Commandant L'Herminier
  • F792 Premier-Maître L'Her
  • F793 Commandant Blaison
  • F794 Enseigne de vaisseau Jacoubet
  • F795 Commandant Ducuing
  • F796 Commandant Birot
  • F797 Commandant Bouan

D'Estienne d'Orves class aviso.

[edit] Patrol ships

• Albatros (only ship of her class)
• L'Audacieuse class - 10 ships
  • P682 L'Audacieuse
  • P683 La Boudeuse
  • P684 La Capricieuse
  • P685 La Fougueuse
  • P686 La Glorieuse
  • P687 La Gracieuse
  • P688 La Moqueuse
  • P689 La Railleuse
  • P690 La Rieuse
  • P691 La Tapageuse
• Sterne (only ship of her class)
• Grebe (Espadon 50 type; only ship of her class)
• Flamant class - 3 ships
  • P676 Flamant
  • P677 Cormoran
  • P678 Pluvier

• Aramis class - 2 ships
  • A712 Athos
  • A713 Aramis

L'Audacieuse class patrol ship.

Flamant class patrol ship.

[edit] Mine Sweepers

• Eridan class - 13 ships
  • M641 Eridan
  • M642 Cassiopée
  • M643 Andromède
  • M644 Pégase
  • M645 Orion
  • M646 Croix du sud
  • M647 Aigle
  • M648 Lyre
  • M649 Persée
  • M650 Sagittaire
  • M651 Verseau (ex M920 Iris)
  • M652 Céphée (ex M919 Fushia)
  • M653 Capricorne (ex M918 Dianthus)

Pegase, Eridan class minesweeper.

• Achéron class - 3 ships

[edit] Landing Platform Dock (LPD)

• Foudre class - 2 ships
  • Foudre
  • Siroco
• Bougainville (L9077)

Foudre class LPD.

[edit] Light transport ships

• BATRAL type - 5 ships
  • Champlain
  • Francis Garnier
  • Dumont D'Urville
  • Jacques Cartier
  • La Grandière

[edit] Landing crafts

• Sabre class - 4 ships
  • Sabre
  • Dague
  • Rapière
  • Hallebarde
• Chalands de transport de matériel (CTM) - 16 ships

[edit] High Sea Tugs

• Abeille Flandre class - 6 ships
• Estérel class - 2 ships
• Malabar class - 3 ships
• Actif class - 1 ship remaining in service as of 2004

[edit] Trial, experimentation and intelligence ships

• Monge (A601)
• Denti (A743)
• Thétis (A785)
• Poseïdon (A722)
• Dupuy de Lôme (A759)

Intelligence ship Dupuy de Lôme

Monge

[edit] Hydrography and Oceanography

• Beautemps-Beaupré
• Lapérouse class - 3 ships
  • Lapérouse
  • Laplace
  • Borda

[edit] Support ships

• Jules Verne (A620) - mobile mechanics
• Loire

• Durance class command and support - 4 ships
  • A607 Meuse
  • A608 Var
  • A630 Marne
  • A631 Somme
• BSM class support - 5 ships
  • A615 Loire
  • A617 Garonne
  • A618 Rance
  • A621 Rhin
  • A622 Rhône
• A616 Le Malin

[edit] School ships

• Belle Poule (sail ship)
• Étoile (sail ship)
• Mutin (sail ship)
• La Grande Hermine (sail ship)
• Léopard class - 8 ships
• D'Entrecasteaux
• Glycine class - 8 ships