List of ships of the Free French Naval Forces

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This is an incomplete list of the ships of the Free French Naval Forces.

Aircraft carriers[]

Bearn class[]

Battleships[]

Bretagne class[]

Courbet class[]


French-built destroyers[]

Chacal class[]

Fantasque class[]

Bourrasque class[]

Escorts leased by the British & Americans[]

Hunt class[]

Flower class[]

  • Aconit (K58) (ex-HMS Aconite)
  • Alysse (K100) - lost 9 February 1942
  • Commandant d'Estienne d'Orves (K93) (ex-HMS Lotus)
  • Commandant Détroyat (K183) (ex-HMS Coriander)
  • Commandant Drogou (K195) (ex-HMS Chrysanthemum)
  • Lobélia (K05) (ex-HMS Lobelia)
  • Mimosa (K11) (ex-HMS Mimosa) - lost 9 June 1942
  • Renoncule (K117) (ex-HMS Ranunculus)
  • Roselys (K57) (ex-HMS Sundew)

Cannon class[]

  • Algérien (ex-USS Cronin (DE-107), later Oise)
  • Hova (ex-USS Hova (DE-110))
  • Marocain (ex-USS Marocain (DE-109))
  • Sénégalais (ex-USS Corbesier (DE-106))
  • Somali (ex-USS Somali (DE-111))
  • Tunisien (ex-USS Crosley (DE-108))

River class[]

  • Aventure (K263) (ex-HMS Braid)
  • Croix de Lorraine (K258) (ex-HMS Strule)
  • Découverte (K370) (ex-HMS Windrush)
  • Escarmouche (K267) (ex-HMS Frome)
  • Surprise (K292) (ex-HMS Torridge)
  • Tonkinois (K260) (ex-HMS Moyola)

Submarines[]

  • Curie - formerly HMS Vox (P67)
  • Doris - formerly HMS Vineyard (P84)
  • Iris
  • Junon
  • Minerve
  • Morse - formerly HMS Vortex (P87)
  • Narval
  • Rubis
  • Surcouf

Avisos[]

Bougainville class[]

Minesweepers[]

Elan class[]

  • Elan
  • La Boudeuse
  • Commandant Bory
  • Commandant Delage
  • Commandant Dominé
  • Commandant Duboc
  • La Gracieuse
  • La Moqueuse

Patrol vessels[]

  • Poulmic - lost 7 November 1940[1]

Cargo ships[]

  • Cagou
  • Casamance
  • Djudjura
  • Félix Roussel
  • Fort Binger
  • Franche-Comté
  • Gravelines
  • Île-de-Batz
  • Indochinois
  • Kilissi
  • PLM 22

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Sail ships[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Poulmic". Shipwrecks and History In Plymouth Sound. 2013. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
  2. ^ "La marine marchande de la France libre – Fondation de la France Libre".
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