Six of ships of the French Navy have been named in honour of the region of Brittany.
Ships named Bretagne , a 110-gun three-decker ship of the lineRoche, vol. 1, p. 85 , a 130-gun steam and sail three-decker , a 90-gun , was renamed Bretagne when she replaced the 1855 Bretagne as a school ship.Roche, vol. 1, p. 467 , a 90-gun , was renamed Bretagne when she replaced the ex-Ville de Bordeaux as a school ship.Roche, vol. 1, p. 206 , a battleship, lead ship of her class, sunk at Mers-el-Kebir (2016), a European multi-mission frigate (FREMM) of the French Navy , originally ordered as Bretagne in 1979, but renamed before commissioning in 1981.
See also - several ships named Bretagne, including , an 1886 ocean liner for Compagnie Générale Transatlantique , a 1951 ocean liner; rechristened SS Brittany in 1962. Destroyed by fire in 1963 MV Bretagne (1989), a ferry-boat operated by Brittany Ferries
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