French ship Tonnerre

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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
• French ship Tonnerre (1808) (1808–1809), a 74-gun Téméraire-class ship of the line
• (1838–1878), a 4-gun wheeled steam corvette
• (1875–1921), an armoured coast-guard
• (1946–1955), an armoured barge in Indochina
• French ship Tonnerre (L9014), a Mistral-class amphibious assault ship 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

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