French ship Colbert explained

Six ships of the French Navy have bourne the name Colbert in honour of Jean Baptiste Colbert :

• , a French wheeled corvette, launched in 1848
• a French armoured frigate, launched in 1877
  • , the class of the 1877 Colbert
• , an auxiliary patrol boat (1915–1917)
• , an auxiliary sail ship (1917)
• a World War II French heavy cruiser, launched in 1928, destroyed in the Scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon in 1942
• , an anti-aircraft cruiser, launched in 1956

See also

• Colbert (disambiguation)