French ship Renard
Eleven ships of the French Navy have borne the name Renard, after the Fox or the character Reynard.[Note 1] The name was also popular for privateers.
Naval ships
- Renard (1689), a fire ship.[1]
- Renard (1746), a 16-gun corvette, deleted from Navy lists in 1748.[1]
- Renard (1762), a 20-gun ship, sold in 1780.[1]
- Renard (1780), a corvette captured by the British in 1780.[1]
- Renard (1780), formerly the captured British privateer Fox.[2]
- Renard (1793), a 12-gun lugger.[2] She appears to have been converted to a schooner; if so, she was the vessel that HMS Cameleon captured in 1803 and that became HMS Renard, later renamed to HMS Crafty. The Spanish captured Crafty in 1807.
- Renard (1810), a 16-gun Abeille-class brig.[2]
- Renard (1829), an 8-gun Écureuil-class cutter.[2]
- Renard (1866), a second-class aviso.[2]
- Renard (1916), an auxiliary patrol boat.[3]
- Renard (1918), a Loup-class tug.[3]
| Ships of the French Navy named Renard |
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| the second-class aviso Renard (1866) |
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See also
- Renard Bleu (1917), formerly the American tug Helen Hope, which the French Navy purchased in 1918.[3]
Privateers
- Renard, of Dieppe, was a two-masted vessel armed with one gun and five swivel guns, and carrying a crew of 29 men. The sloop HMS Jamaica captured her on 2 July 1747.[4]
- Renard was a cutter of 10 guns and 71 men, belonging to Guadeloupe, that Tamar captured on 7 August 1795 off Martinique.[5]
- Renard was a privateer that Cerberus captured on 12 November 1797 on the Irish station. The Royal Navy took her into service under her existing name and sold her in 1807.
- Renard was a French privateer lugger that Nemesis captured on 12 January 1800.[6]
- Renard was a privateer sloop of three guns and 15 men that Surinam captured on 26 March 1800.[7]
- Renard was a French privateer that the hired armed lugger Nile captured on 1 November 1800 off Folkestone.[8]
- Renard was a privateer lugger, pierced for 10 guns, that Fortunee, Trent, and the cutter Dolphin captured near Saint Aubin's Bay on 20 April 1801.[9]
- Renard was a French privateer captured on 16 November 1802 by a British squadron in the Mediterranean.[10]
- Renarde (or Renard) was French privateer lugger that Skylark captured on 7 November 1807.[11] Skylark shared the capture with Trompeuse and the hired armed cutter Countess of Elgin, with which she was in company.[12]
- Renard was a felucca-rigged privateer of one 6-pounder gun and 47 men that the boats of Meleager captured on 8 February 1808 off Santiago de Cuba.[13]
- Renard was a privateer cutter of six guns and 24 men that Quebec and Kite captured on 2 December 1810.[14]
- Renard, launched in 1812, was a privateer cutter owned by Robert Surcouf.
Notes, citations, and references
Notes
- ↑ The character's name is written "Renard" in French; by the end of the Middle Age, it had replaced the word "goupil" for "fox",
Citations
References
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. pp. 375–376. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. 2. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
