French ship Neptune explained

A number of ships of the French Navy have borne the name Neptune, or a variant thereof:

- - (1610–1615), a privateer (1628–1641), a 16-gun ship of the line (1651–1655), a ship of the line
(1666–1671), a 64-gun ship of the line, also known as Illustre
(1671–1679), a 36-gun ship of the line, also known as Beaufort
(1670–1702), a 40-gun ship of the line
, a 46-gun ship of the line
- (1697–1699), a 24-gun frigate (1705–1713), a 64-gun ship of the line
(1716), a 74-gun ship of the line
(1724–1747), a 74-gun ship of the line
(1778–1795), a 74-gun ship of the line
- - , a corvette (1780–1782), a 6-gun schooner, a 16-gun corvette
, a cutter
(1795–1798), a gunboat
(1795), a lugger
(1799–1799), a schooner
(1801–1805), troopship n°188
(1804–1808), troopship n°262
, a launched in 1804, captured by the Spanish in 1808 and renamed
(1805–1814), a xebec
, a brig launched in Venice in 1807, that the Royal Navy captured in 1808 and that became HMS Cretan
Neptune (1811–1814), an unbuilt 110-gun
(1839–1858), an 80-gun ship of the line
(1892–1908), a
(1914–1919), an auxiliary minesweeper
, an ex-German ship of the Reichsbahn