Eleven ships of the French Navy have borne the name Foudroyant ( literally "Like lightning", or "embodying the speed and violence of lightning"): , a 70-gun ship of the line , an 82-gun ship of the line Foudroyant, renamed Soleil-Royal in 1693 , a 104-gun ship of the line , a 110-gun ship of the line (1751), an 80-gun ship of the line which in 1758 was captured by the British Navy, becoming (1799), an 80-gun ship of the line a prame (a vessel propelled by oars and sails) of 12 guns of 24 poundsl'Amiral Baudin by Vice Amiral Jurien de la Graviers , a central battery and barbette battleship of the Redoutable type , a L'Adroit-class destroyer a launched in 1938 as Fleuret and renamed in 1941; she was scuttled in 1942 (S610), a ballistic missile submarine of the Redoutable type
Also, , originally French ship Duguay-Trouin, was renamed Foudroyant before being scuttled.
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