French ship Amphitrite

At least ten ships of the French Navy have borne the name Amphitrite, after Amphitrite, a Greek sea goddess.

  • French frigate Amphitrite (1696) was a fourth-rank 42/44-gun ship built at Rochefort by the design of Pierre Masson. She was in private service beginning 1698, when she carried a Jesuit mission to Canton under the leadership of Father Joachim Bouvet. She was recommissioned in 1704, and lost to a fire in 1713.
  • French ship Amphitrite (1700) was a third-rank ship launched October 1700 at Dunkirk as a 50/52. It was later converted to a later 46/48, was renamed Protée in March 1705, and deleted 1722.
  • French frigate Amphitrite (1744), launched at Bayonne and wrecked 1745, was the lead ship of the class of the same name, a 30-gun design of 1744 by Venard, with 26 x 8-pounder and 4 x 4-pounder guns.
  • French frigate Amphitrite was a Dédagneuse-class frigate, initially launched as Impérieuse (1768).
  • French frigate Amphitrite (1808) was a 44-gun Armide class frigate, scuttled in 1809 during the British invasion of Martinique.
  • French frigate Amphitrite (1814) was a Pallas-class frigate launched October 1814 at Venice, transferred to the Austrian Navy after that year's annexation of Venice, and renamed Anfitrite and later Augusta.
  • French frigate Amphitrite (1814) was an Armide-class frigate launched as Saale (1810) (and briefly reverted to that name during 1815). Deleted 1821.
  • French ship Amphitrite was a 54-gun razée during the Bourbon Restoration, originally launched as Agamemnon (1812), a Téméraire class seventy-four, during the First French Empire.
  • Amphitrite was an Amphitrite-class submarine launched in 1914 and struck in 1935.
  • Amphitrite was a Diane-class submarine launched in 1930 and sunk in 1942.
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