French ship La Couronne

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Thirteen ships of the French Navy of the Ancien régime have borne the name Couronne ("crown"):

• La Couronne (1636), the first man of war built in France
• La Couronne, a galley (1664-1675)
• La Couronne, a 80-gun ship of the line (1669-1712)
• La Couronne, a 6-gun fire ship (1674-1677)
• La Couronne, a galley (1677-1686)
• La Couronne, a galley (1686-1696)
• La Couronne, a galley (1697-1716)
• La Couronne, a 74-gun ship of the line (1750-1795)
• La Couronne a 80-gun ship. Renamed Ça Ira in 1793, captured by Britain 1795. She was destroyed in an accidental fire in 1796.
• La Couronne, a Téméraire class ship of the line (1824)
• La Couronne, a 32-gun frigate also named Minerve (1697-1716)
• La Couronne, a 74-gun ship of the line, lead ship of her class (1813)
• La Couronne, a 80-gun ship of the line (1824-1869)
• La Couronne (1861), a Gloire type ironclad with a modified bow