French ship Redoutable
At least eleven vessels of the French Navy have borne the name Redoutable ("frightening"). Among them:
- Le Redoutable, a 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.
- Le 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 HMS Success
- Le Redoutable (1801), coastguard
- Le Redoutable (1804), Xebec
- Le Redoutable (1853), an Algésiras class ship of the line
- Le Redoutable (1876), the first warship in the world to be built in steel.
- Le Redoutable (Q136) (1930), lead ship of the Redoutable class submarine before the Second World War.
- Le Redoutable (S 611) (1971), first SNLE submarine of the French Navy, now a museum and the largest submarine in the world open to the public.