French ship Tourville

Several ships of the French Navy have been named in honour of Anne Hilarion de Tourville. Among them:

French ship Tourville (1788), a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line (1790-1833)
San Gennaro, a Spanish 86-gun ship of the line ceded to France, bore the name Tourville from 1811 to 1816
French ship Tourville (1853), an 80-gun ship of the line (1853-1872)
Tourville, an unprotected cruiser built in the 1870s
Gironde, a transport renamed Tourville in 1909
An unbuilt Lyon-class battleship (1914)
Tourville, a heavy cruiser (1928-1962)
French frigate Tourville (D 610), a F67 type frigate.
A Barracuda-class submarine is scheduled to bear the name

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