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This is a list of French ship Classes of World War II. This includes ship Classes used by the French Third Republic, Vichy France and Free France.The sections of the last are in chronological order with the first ships into service being first and the last ships into service being last.
The ship, commissioned in 2001, is the tenth French aircraft carrier, the first French nuclear-powered surface vessel, and the only nuclear-powered carrier completed outside of the United States Navy. She is named after French president and general Charles de Gaulle . The ship carries a complement of Dassault Rafale M and E-2C Hawkeye aircraft ...
This is a list of active French Navy ships. [ 1][ 2][ 3] The French Navy consists of nearly 100 vessels of the Force d'action navale (Naval action force) [ 4] and the 9 submarines of the Forces sous-marines (Submarine force). Primary assets include one nuclear aircraft carrier, three amphibious assault ships, four air-defence -focused ...
The scuttling of the French fleet at Toulon was orchestrated by Vichy France on 27 November 1942 to prevent Nazi German forces from seizing it. [ 2] After the Allied invasion of North Africa, the Germans invaded the territory administered by Vichy under the Armistice of 1940. [ 3] The Vichy Secretary of the Navy, Admiral François Darlan ...
D. SS Dordogne. Categories: World War II naval ships by country. World War II military equipment of France. World War II ships of France. Naval ships of France. Military units and formations of France in World War II.
This list of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945.
By the mid-1930s, the French again embarked on a naval construction program to counter the German and Italian fleets, resulting in the two Dunkerque-class battleships and fourRichelieu-class battleships; of the four Richelieus that were planned, two were cancelled by the start of World War II, and only one was completed in time to see action ...
List of aircraft carriers of France. The following is a list of aircraft carriers of France. Fifteen aircraft carriers have served the navy or been proposed since the 1910s. As of 2024, one French carrier— Charles de Gaulle (R91)—remains in service of the French government.