French ship Redoutable explained

Nine ships of the French Navy have borne the name Redoutable ("Redoubtable"):

Ships named Redoutable

• , 74-gun ship of the line. She took part in the landing in Mahon under Admiral la Galissonière. She was destroyed in Lagos in 1759.
• , a 74-gun ship of the line. One of her snipers killed Admiral Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar.
• , an aviso captured by on 26 June 1800.
• Redoutable (1801) a coastguard.
• Redoutable (1804) a xebec.
• , an .
• (1876), the first warship in the world to be built in steel.
• (1930), lead ship of the s before the Second World War
• (1971), first SNLE submarine of the French Navy, now a museum and the largest submarine in the world open to the public.

Notes and references

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 . I: 1670–1870. Dictionary of French Warships from Colbert to the Present Day.
• 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 . II: 1870–2006. Dictionary of French Warships from Colbert to the Present Day.