French ship Redoutable

Nine ships of the French Navy have borne the name Redoutable ("Redoubtable"):

Ships named Redoutable[]

• , 74-gun ship of the line. She took part in the landing in Mahon under Admiral la Galissonière. She was destroyed in Lagos in 1759.^[1]
• Redoutable (1791), a 74-gun ship of the line. One of her snipers killed Admiral Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar.^[2]
• , an aviso captured by HMS Success on 26 June 1800.^[2]
• Redoutable (1801) a coastguard.^[2]
• Redoutable (1804) a xebec.^[2][a]
• Redoutable (1853), an Algésiras-class ship of the line.^[2]
• Redoutable (1876), the first warship in the world to be built in steel.^[3]
• Redoutable (1928) (1930), lead ship of the Redoutable-class submarines before the Second World War^[3]
• Redoutable (S611) (1971), first SNLE submarine of the French Navy, now a museum and the largest submarine in the world open to the public.^[3]

See also[]

• HMS Redoubtable

Notes and references[]

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Bibliography[]

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005a). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005b). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. 2. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.

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