title: French ship Provence
text: # French ship Provence
  
  A number of ships of the French Navy have borne the name Provence in honour of the province. Among them:
  
  * Provence (1763), a 64-gun ship of the line
  * Provence (1815), an 80-gun ship of the line, launched as Hercule was renamed Provence during the Bourbon Restoration
  * Provence (1855), a steamer brig
  * Provence (1863), a Flandre-class armoured frigate
  * Provence (1912), a Bretagne-class battleship
  * Rubis (S601), the lead ship of the Rubis class of attack nuclear submarines, was initially named Provence
  * Provence (2013), the third French Aquitaine-class FREMM multipurpose frigate (Provence)
  