French ship Courbet
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Three ships of the French Navy
have been named Courbet in honour of Amédée Courbet
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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 been named Courbet in honour of Amédée Courbet
Amédée Courbet
Anatole-Amédée-Prosper Courbet was a French admiral who won a series of important land and naval victories during the Tonkin campaign and the Sino-French War .-Early years:...
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- Courbet (1882-1909), an ironclad battleship
- CourbetFrench battleship Courbet (1911)Courbet was the lead ship of her class, the first dreadnoughts built for the French Navy. She was completed before World War I and named in honour of Admiral Amédée Courbet. She spent the war in the Mediterranean, helping to sink the Austro-Hungarian protected cruiser in August 1914...
(1913-1944), lead dreadnought battleship of the Courbet classCourbet class battleshipThe Courbet class battleships were the first dreadnoughts built for the French Navy before World War I. The class comprised four ships: , , , and . All four ships were deployed to the Mediterranean Sea for the entirety of World War I, spending most of their time escorting French troop convoys from... - Courbet (F 712), in active service, a La Fayette classLa Fayette class frigateThe La Fayette class units are light multi-mission frigates built by DCN and operated by French Marine Nationale...
multi-mission frigate