French ship Bougainville explained

Thirteen ships of the French Navy have been named in honour of Louis Antoine de Bougainville:

• A privateer (1797–1800) captured by on 14 February 1800, but the prize sank following a collision the next day.
• A privateer captured by the frigate in June 1801
• A privateer captured by in March 1807.
• A brig captured by the British in 1809
• A brig-aviso (1830–1856)
• A steam aviso (1858–1889)
• An aviso (1875–1920), launched as Allier and renamed in 1887
• A three-masted barque (1902), sunk by a German submarine in 1916
• A mobilised cargo (1914), captured by the Japanese in 1942
• A colonial aviso (1929–1940)
• An auxiliary cruiser (ex-Victor Schoelcher) sunk by the British in 1942
• The landing ship dock (1986)
• The present, a D'Entrecasteaux-class multi-mission vessel

See also

• of the French Navy