French ship Vengeur

Seven ships of the French Navy have borne the name Vengeur ('Avenger'):

Ships named Vengeur

• (1765–1785), a 64-gun ship of the line
• (1790–1792), a
• Vengeur (1794), a 20-gun corvette
• (1799), an 8-gun schooner
• (1803–1806), a 120-gun
• (1872–1905), an armoured coast guard
• Vengeur, a monitor type ironclad of 1882.
• (1931–1942), a , eventually scuttled with the Toulon fleet in 1942

Ships with similar names

• The 74-gun ship of the line Marseillois (or Marseillais) was renamed ("Avenger of the People) in February 1794, and was often referred to simply as Vengeur – this ship fought, and was sunk, at the Third Battle of Ushant on 1 June 1794.

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