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Thirteen ships of the French Navy
French Navy

The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale , is the maritime arm of the French military. It consists of a full range of vessels, from patrol boats to guided missile frigates, and includes one nuclear aircraft carrier and ten nuclear submarines ....
 have been named in honour of Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Louis Antoine de Bougainville

Louis-Antoine, comte de Bougainville was a French admiral and explorer....
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Thirteen ships of the French Navy
French Navy

The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale , is the maritime arm of the French military. It consists of a full range of vessels, from patrol boats to guided missile frigates, and includes one nuclear aircraft carrier and ten nuclear submarines ....
 have been named in honour of Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Louis Antoine de Bougainville

Louis-Antoine, comte de Bougainville was a French admiral and explorer....
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  • A privateer
    Privateer

    A privateer was a private warship authorized by a country's government by letters of marque to attack foreign shipping. Strictly, a privateer was only entitled by its state to attack and rob enemy vessels during wartime....
     (1797-1800) captured by HMS Amazon.
  • A privateer captured by the frigate HMS Eurydice in June 1801.
  • A privateer captured by HMS Scorpion in March 1807.
  • A brig
    Brig

    In Glossary of nautical terms, a brig is a vessel with two square rig masts. During the Age of Sail, brigs were seen as fast and maneuverable and were used as both naval war ships and merchant ships....
     captured by the British in 1809.
  • A brig-aviso
    Aviso

    An aviso , a kind of dispatch boat or advice boat, survives particularly in the French navy.The Dictionnaire de la Marine Fran?aise 1788 – 1792 describes avisos as "small boats designed to carry orders or advices"....
     (1830-1856)
  • A steam aviso (1858-1889)
  • A colonial aviso Bougainville (1929-1940)
  • An aviso (1875-1920), launched as the Allier and renamed in 1887.
  • A three-masted barque (1902), sunk by a German submarine in 1916.
  • A mobilised cargo (1914), captured by the Japanese in 1942.
  • A colonial aviso (1929-1940).
  • An auxiliary cruiser (ex-Victor Schoelcher) sunk by the British in 1942
  • The present Bougainville (L9077, in service since 1986) is a landing dock.