French ship Le Redoutable

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At least eleven vessels of the French Navy have borne the name Le Redoutable ("the frightening one"). Among them:

• Le Redoutable: project for a ship of the line (1706)
• Le Redoutable (1740): privateer
• Le 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.
• The Redoutable (1791), a 74-gun ship of the line. One of her crew killed Admiral Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar.
• Le Redoutable (1800): aviso, captured by the HMS Success
• Le Redoutable (1801): coast-guard
• Le Redoutable (1804): Xebec
• Le Redoutable (1853), an Algésiras class ship of the line
• The Redoutable (1876), the first warship in the world to be built in steel.
• The Redoutable (Q136) (1930), lead ship of the Redoutable class submarine before the Second World War.
• The Redoutable (1971), first SNLE submarine of the French Navy, now a museum and the largest submarine in the world open to the public.