List of battleships of France
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Template:French Navy This is a list of French battleships.
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Sail battleships (1410-1840)
For a more complete list for this period see: List of ships of the line of France
- Marie la Cordeliere - burnt 1512
- Invincible 54 - captured by England 17 June 1694
- Hope 70 (ex-English Hope, captured 16 April 1695)
- Hazard 52 - captured by England 16 November 1704
- Auguste 54 - captured by England July 1704
- Magnanime 74 - wrecked and scutted 10 March 1705
- Fleur-de-lis 86 - wrecked 10 March 1705
- Arrogant 60 - captured by England 10 March 1705
- Ardente 66 - captured by Netherlands 10 March 1705
- Marquis 56 - captured by Netherlands 10 March 1705
- Pendennis 48 (ex-English Pendennis, captured 10 March 1705)
- Content 64 - sunk December 1706
- Gloucester 64 (ex-British Gloucester, captured 26 October 1709)
- Hampshire 50 (ex-British Hampshire, captured 2 November 1709)
- Foudroyant (1724)
- Boree (1735)
- Mars (1739)
- Tonnant (1743)
- Intrepide (1747)
- Magnifique (1749)
- Duc de Bourgogne (1751)
- Hector (1752)
- Guerrier (1753)
- Diademe (1756)
- Glorieux (1756)
- Ocean (1756)
- Minotaur (1757)
- Citoyen (1763)
- Impetueux (1764) (renamed Ville de Paris)
- Conquerant (1765)
- St-Esprit (1765)
- Bourgogne (1766)
- Bretagne (1766)
- Couronne (1766)
- Languedoc (1766)
- Marseillais (1766)
- Actif (1767)
- Bien Aime (1769)
- Destin (1770)
- Fendant (1772)
- Auguste (1778)
- Hercule (1778)
- Heros (1778)
- Neptune (1778)
- Magnanime (1779)
- Northumberland (1779)
- Triomphant (1779)
- Majestueux (1780)
- Royal-Louis (1780)
- Brave (1781)
- Illustre (1781)
- Hannibal 50 (ex-British Hannibal, captured 1781)
- Orient 74 - wrecked 7 September 1782
- Bizarre 64 - wrecked 5 October 1782
- Alexandre 64 - scuttled 1782
- Temeraire (1782?)
- Jean Bart (1788)
- Tourville (1788)
- Duguay-Trouin (1788)
- Tonnant (1789)
- Etats de Bourgogne (1790) (renamed Cote d'Or, Montagne, Peuple, Ocean)
- Suffren (1791) (renamed Redoubtable)
- Sans Culotte (1791) (renamed Dauphin-Royal, Orient)
- Commerce de Marseille - captured by the UK 1792
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Wooden steam battleships (1841-58)
- Le Napoléon, first steam battleship in history.
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Early ironclad battleships (1859-1878)
- Gloire Class
- Gloire (1859), the first ocean-going ironclad in history.
- Invincible (1861)
- Normandie (1860)
- Couronne (1861)
- Magenta Class
- Magenta (1861)
- Solferino (1861)
- Provence Class
- Flandre (1864)
- Gauloise (1865)
- Guyenne (1865)
- Magnanime (1864)
- Provence (1863)
- Revanche (1865)
- Savoie (1863)
- Surveillante (1864)
- Valeureuse (1864)
- Héroïne (1863)
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Early steel battleships
- Redoutable (1876), the first warship in the world to use steel as the principal building material.
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Pre-Dreadnoughts (1879-1910)
- Amiral Duperre (1879)
- Terrible Class
- Terrible (1881)
- Indomptable (1883)
- Caiman (1885)
- Requin (1885)
- Admiral Baudin Class
- Admiral Baudin (1883)
- Formidable (1885)
- Hoche (1886)
- Magenta Class
- Marceau (1887)
- Magenta (1890)
- Neptune (1887)
- Carnot (1884)
- Charles Martel (1893)
- Massena (1895)
- Brennus (1891)
- Iena (1898)
- Jaureguiberry (1893)
- Bouvet (1896)
- Charlemagne Class
- Charlemagne (1895)
- Gaulois (1896)
- St. Louis (1896)
- Henri IV (1899)
- Iena (1898)
- Suffren (1899)
- Republique class
- Patrie (1903)
- Republique (1902)
- Verite class
- Liberte (1905)
- Democratie (1904)
- Justice (1904)
- Verite (1907)
- Danton class ("semi-Dreadnoughts")
- Voltaire (1909)
- Diderot (1909)
- Condorcet (1909)
- Danton (1909)
- Mirabeau (1909)
- Vergniaud (1910)
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Dreadnoughts (1911-1943)
- Courbet class
- Jean Bart (1911) - renamed Océan 1936, scuttled 1944, broken up (BU) 1946-47
- Courbet (1911) - scuttled 1944 during the Battle of Normandy
- Paris (1912)
- France (1912) - wrecked 1922
- Bretagne class
- Provence (1913) - scuttled 1942, refloated 1943, scuttled 1944, refloated 1949, BU
- Bretagne (1913) - sunk 1940, BU 1950s
- Lorraine (1913) - BU 1954
- Normandie class (all except Bearn were scrapped after launching)
- Gascogne (1914) - BU 1923-24
- Normandie (1914) - BU 1924-25
- Flandre (1914) - BU 1924
- Languedoc (1916) - BU 1929
- Bearn (1920) (completed as an aircraft carrier)
- Lyon class (not begun)
- Duquesne (-)
- Lille (-)
- Lyon (-)
- Tourville (-)
- Dunkerque class
- Dunkerque (1935) - scuttled 1942, refloated 1945
- Strasbourg (1936) - scuttled 1942, refloated 1943, sunk 1944, refloated 1945,
- Richelieu class