French ship Amphitrite explained

Fifteen ships of the French Navy have borne the name Amphitrite, after Amphitrite, a Greek sea goddess.

Ships named Amphitrite

• , a fourth-rank 42/44-gun ship built at Rochefort by the design of Pierre Masson. She was in private service beginning 1698, when she carried a Jesuit mission to Canton under the leadership of Father Joachim Bouvet. She was recommissioned in 1704, and lost to a fire in 1713.
• , a third-rank ship launched October 1700 at Dunkirk as a 50/52. It was later converted to a later 46/48, was renamed Protée in March 1705, and deleted 1722.
• , launched at Bayonne and wrecked 1745, was the lead ship of the class of the same name, a 30-gun design of 1744 by Venard, with 26 × 8-pounder and 4 × 4-pounder guns.
• , a
• , a corvette
• , a fluyt
• , an aviso
• , a 52-gun frigate, bore the name during her career
• , a 44-gun, scuttled in 1809 during the British invasion of Martinique.
• , a launched October 1814 at Venice, transferred to the Austrian Navy after that year's annexation of Venice, and renamed Anfitrite and later Augusta.
• , an Armide-class frigate, bore the name during the Bourbon Restoration. She was deleted in 1821.
• , a seventy-four of the First French Empire, bore the name after she was razéed into a 54-gun frigate during the Bourbon Restoration.
• , a lorcha built in Indochina.
• was an launched in 1914 and struck in 1935.
• was a launched in 1930 and sunk in 1942.

Ships with similar names

• a requisitioned trawler.
• a requisitioned yacht, used as an auxiliary patrol boat.

Bibliography

• Book: Roche, Jean-Michel. 2005a. Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. 978-2-9525917-0-6. 165892922. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. 1.
• Book: Roche, Jean-Michel. 2005b. Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. 978-2-9525917-0-6. 165892922. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. 2.