Five ships of the French Navy have borne the name Africain ("African"):
List (1701), a 44-gun ship of the line, hulked in Rochefort in 1723.Roche, vol.1, p. 23 (1769), a 26-gun flûte, broken up in 1780. (1795), a 1-gun flûte, of uncertain origin in service May to September 1795 at PasjesWinfield and Roberts (2015), p. 378. (1819), a paddle-wheel steam aviso, decommissioned in Saint Louis, Senegal, in 1827.Winfield and Roberts (2015), pp. 315–316. (1832), a paddle-wheel steam aviso, decommissioned in Saint Louis, Senegal, in 1838.Winfield and Roberts (2015), p. 321. (1858), a paddle-wheel steam aviso, broken up in 1878.Winfield and Roberts (2015), p. 350. (1858), named Africain 1879–1881, last mentioned 1882.
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Winfield, Rif & Stephen S Roberts (2015) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 – 1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing).