French ship Bougainville

This article is about military ships of France. For other ships flagged by France, see Bougainville (disambiguation).

Thirteen ships of the French Navy have been named in honour of Louis Antoine de Bougainville:

• A privateer (1797–1800) captured by HMS Amazon on 14 February 1800, but the prize sank following a collision the next day.
• A privateer captured by the frigate HMS Eurydice in June 1801
• A privateer captured by HMS Scorpion in March 1807.
• A brig captured by the British in 1809
• A brig-aviso (1830–1856)
• A steam aviso (1858–1889)
• An aviso (1875–1920), launched as 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 Bougainville (1929–1940)
• An auxiliary cruiser (ex-Victor Schoelcher) sunk by the British in 1942
• The landing ship dock Bougainville (L9077) (1986)
• The present Bougainville (A622), a D'Entrecasteaux-class multi-mission vessel

See also

• Bougainville-class aviso of the French Navy