At least fourteen ships of the French Navy have been named Lion:
Ships named Lion
, a 36-gun ship of the line, bore the name during her career , a 42-gun ship of the line, bore the name during her career , a 40-gun ship of the line, bore the name during her career (1694), a fireship , a 64-gun ship of the line, lead ship of her class , a 74-gun ship of the line renamed Marat before launch (1794), a corvette , a 74-gun ship of the line, bore the name during her career , a Téméraire-class ship of the line launched in 1804 and scuttled and burnt in 1809
(1885), an (1916), an armed trawler, ex-Brazilian Ernestina , an armed boat , a launched in 1929 and scuttled in 1942. , a
Other ships with similar names , a 27-gun fluyt, ex-Briton Lion captured from the British , a 28-gun ship of the line , a 22-gun ship of the line , a 46-gun ship of the line, bore the name Lion de Smaland during her career , a 24-gun ship of the line, also originally named Lion rouge , a fireship, bore the name Lion d'Or during her career , a 40-gun ship of the line, possibly the captured Turkish ship Al Assad el Ahmar. , an armed ketch , an armed trawler
Ships named Lionne are at French ship Lionne.
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