FRENCH SHIP LE REDOUTABLE

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At least eleven vessels of the French Navy have borne the name '''Le Redoutable''' ("the frightening one"). Among them:

★ ''Le Redoutable'': project for a ship of the line (1706)

★ ''Le Redoutable'' (1740): privateer

★ ''Le Redoutable'' (1749): 74-gun ship of the line. She took part in the landing in Mahon under admiral la Galissonière. She was destroyed in Lagos in 1759.

★ The ''Redoutable'' (1791), a 74-gun ship of the line. One of her crew killed Admiral Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar.

★ ''Le Redoutable'' (1800): aviso, captured by the HMS ''Success''

★ ''Le Redoutable'' (1801): coast-guard

★ ''Le Redoutable'' (1804): Xebec

★ ''Le Redoutable'' (1853): steam and sail ship

★ The ''Redoutable'' (1876), the first warship in the world to be built in steel.

★ The ''Redoutable'' (1930), lead ship of a class of submarines before the Second World War.

★ The ''Redoutable'' (1971), first SNLE submarine of the French Navy, now a museum and the largest submarine in the world open to the public.