French ship Audacieux explained

Many ships of the French Navy have borne the name Audacieux or Audacieuse, which means audacious in French, including:

• , a frigate built at Dunkerque, later a commerce raider, then coastguard vessel, and struck 1707
• , a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line, broken up in 1803
• , a gunboat in service until retired in 1814
• French ship Audacieux, a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line, ordered in 1805 but completed in 1807 as Pultusk
• , an Ardente-class frigate, broken up in 1872
• , an, sunk in collision in 1896 off Corsica
• , a, launched in 1900, used as a target from 1923 and broken up in 1926
• , an, later gunboat, condemned in 1940
• (1934–1943), a, sunk in 1943
• a or L'Audacieuse-class patrol boat launched in 1984

See also

• , a French fishing vessel in service 1945–50s
• List of ships named Audacious