French ship Couronne explained

Fourteen ships of the French Navy or the Galley Corps (which was separate from the Navy) of the Ancien Régime or Empire have borne the name Couronne ("crown"):

• , the first major warship to be built in France – actually launched in 1632/33
• , a flûte or storeship (1664–1677)
• , a galley (1665–1675) built as Vendôme in 1663 but renamed Couronne in 1665
• , an 82-gun ship of the line (1669–1712)
• (1674), a 6-gun fire ship (1674–1677)
• , a galley (1677–1686)
• , a galley (1686–1696)
• , a galley (1697–1716)
• , a 74-gun ship of the line (1749–1795)
• , an 80-gun ship of the line (1768–1781)
• Couronne an 80-gun ship. Renamed Ça Ira in 1793, captured by Britain 1795. She was destroyed in an accidental fire in 1796.
• , a 32-gun frigate, bore the name Couronne while under construction as a
• , a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line (1813)
• , a Téméraire-class 80-gun ship of the line (1824–1869)
• (1861), an iron-hulled derivative of the