French ship Dupetit-Thouars
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Six ships of the French navy
have borne the name Dupetit-Thouars in honour of Aristide Aubert Du Petit Thouars
, hero of the Battle of the Nile
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French Navy
The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching...
have borne the name Dupetit-Thouars in honour of Aristide Aubert Du Petit Thouars
Aristide Aubert Du Petit Thouars
Aristide Aubert Du Petit Thouars was a French naval officer, and a hero of the Battle of Aboukir, where he died....
, hero of the Battle of the Nile
Battle of the Nile
The Battle of the Nile was a major naval battle fought between British and French fleets at Aboukir Bay on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt from 1–3 August 1798...
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- A bomb longboat (1799)
- Dupetit-Thouars, a brigBrigA brig is a sailing vessel with two square-rigged masts. During the Age of Sail, brigs were seen as fast and manoeuvrable and were used as both naval warships and merchant vessels. They were especially popular in the 18th and early 19th centuries...
which served in the French intervention in MexicoFrench intervention in MexicoThe French intervention in Mexico , also known as The Maximilian Affair, War of the French Intervention, and The Franco-Mexican War, was an invasion of Mexico by an expeditionary force sent by the Second French Empire, supported in the beginning by the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Spain...
(1828 - 1865) - Dupetit-Thouars, a cruiserCruiserA cruiser is a type of warship. The term has been in use for several hundreds of years, and has had different meanings throughout this period...
(1847 - 1897) - Dupetit-Thouars, an armoured cruiser (1901 - 1918)
- Dupetit-Thouars, an Armide class submarine (1920 - 1928)
- Dupetit-Thouars (D625), a T 47 class destroyerT 47 class destroyerThe T 47 class were the first destroyers built for the French Navy after the Second World War. Twelve ships were built between 1955 and 1957. The ships were modernised in the 1960s and decommissioned in the 1980s when they were replaced by Georges Leygues-class frigatesThese ships were larger than...
(1956 - 1988)