French ship Couronne

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Thirteen ships of the French Navy of the Ancien Régime or Empire have borne the name Couronne ("crown"):

• Couronne (1636), the first man of war built in France
• Couronne, a galley (1664-1675)
• Couronne, an 80-gun ship of the line (1669-1712)
• Couronne, a 6-gun fire ship (1674-1677)
• Couronne, a galley (1677-1686)
• Couronne, a galley (1686-1696)
• Couronne, a galley (1697-1716)
• Couronne, a 74-gun ship of the line (1749-1795)
• Couronne, an 80-gun ship of the line (1768-1781)
• Couronne an 80-gun ship. Renamed Ça Ira in 1793, captured by Britain 1795. She was destroyed in an accidental fire in 1796.
• Minerve, a 32-gun frigate, bore the name Couronne while under construction as a Téméraire class ship of the line
• Couronne, a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line (1813)
• Couronne, a Téméraire-class 80-gun ship of the line (1824-1869)
• Couronne (1861), a iron-hulled derivative of the Gloire-class ironclad