French ship Duguay-Trouin

Twelve vessels of the French Navy have been named Duguay-Trouin in honour of René Duguay-Trouin; among them:

• Duguay-Trouin (1781-1793), a 74-gun ship of the line
• Duguay Trouin (1793-1794) was the East Indiaman Princess Royal that the French captured in the Indian ocean on 27 September 1793 and took into service as an ad hoc 36-gun frigate that they named Duguay Trouin; the British recaptured her on 5 May 1794.
• Duguay-Trouin (1794-1795/6) was a tartane that the French Navy requisitioned in 1794 to serve as an aviso. The Navy renamed her Dangereuse in 1795 or 1796. The British Royal Navy captured her in 1799 and took her into service as HMS Dangereuse, but then sold her in 1801.
• Duguay-Trouin (1795-1805), a 74-gun ship of the line; she was captured by the British at the Battle of Trafalgar, renamed HMS Implacable, and was the oldest ship of the line after the HMS Victory when she was scuttled in 1948
• Duguay-Trouin (1813-1824), a 74-gun ship of the line
• Duguay-Trouin (1854-1872), a 90-gun ship of the line
• Duguay-Trouin (1873-1899), an ironclad cruiser
• Duguay-Trouin (1900-1914), a training cruiser transformed into a hospital. The soldier-poet Rupert Brooke died aboard en route to the Dardanelles on 23 April 1915 at Trebuki Bay, Skyros
• Duguay-Trouin (1923-1952), a light cruiser, lead ship of her class, which served with the Free French Forces
• Duguay-Trouin (D 611), a Tourville class frigate, decommissioned in 1999
• A Barracuda class submarine is scheduled to bear the name

Ships of the French Navy named Duguay-Trouin
Duguay-Trouin (1795-1805) as HMS Implacable  Duguay-Trouin (1923-1952)  Duguay-Trouin (D 611)

See also

• Duguay-Trouin (French privateer)

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.