French ship Éole

Ten ships of the French Navy have borne the name Éole in honour of Aeolus

Ships named Éole
  • Éole (1656), a 36-gun ship of the line
  • Éole (1674), a 44-gun ship of the line
  • Éole (1692), a 64-gun ship of the line
  • Éole (1734), a 64-gun ship of the line
  • Éole (1789), a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line
  • Robert (1797), a Victoire-class 64-gun ship of the line, was named Éole before taking her definitive name
  • Éole (1798), a xebec
  • Éole was an 18-gun corvette that the British Royal Navy captured in 1799 and took into service as HMS Nimrod. After the Royal Navy sold her in 1811 she became a whaler and was last listed in 1820.
  • Anversois (1814), a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line, was renamed Éole under the Bourbon Restoration
  • Eylau (1856), a 100-gun Hercule-class ship of the line, was started as Éole before taking her definitive name

See also

References
  • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 177. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
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