Eight ships of the French Navy have borne the name Tonnerre ("thunder"): (1696–1713), formerly HMS Thunder, a captured 4-gun bomb ship. (1759–1768), a gunboat (1785–1807), a 3-gun gunboat (1808–1809), a 74-gun (1838–1878), a 4-gun wheeled steam corvette (1875–1921), an armoured coastal defence ship (1946–1955), an armoured barge in Indochina , a presently in service.
Reference and sources Les bâtiments ayant porté le nom de Tonnerre Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre de Colbert à nos jours, Jean-Michel Roche