title: French ship Lion
text: # French ship Lion
  
  At least fourteen ships of the French Navy have been named Lion:
  
  ## Ships named Lion
  
  * Sauveur (1671), a 36-gun ship of the line, bore the name during her career
  * Canadien (1676), a 42-gun ship of the line, bore the name during her career
  * Écueil (1678), a 40-gun ship of the line, bore the name during her career
  * French fireship Lion (1694), a fireship
  * Lion (1752), a 64-gun ship of the line, lead ship of her class
  * Lion (1794), a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line renamed Marat before launch
  * French corvette Lion (1794), a corvette
  * Cassard (1795), a Vétéran-class 74-gun ship of the line, bore the name during her career
  * Lion (1804), a Téméraire-class ship of the line launched in 1804 and scuttled and burnt in 1809
  * French gunboat Lion (1885), an Aspic-class gunboat
  * French trawler Lion (1916), an armed trawler, ex-Brazilian Ernestina
  * Lion (1918), an armed boat
  * French destroyer Lion, a Guépard-class destroyer launched in 1929 and scuttled in 1942.
  * Lion (1983), a Léopard-class training ship
  
  ## Other ships with similar names
  
  * Lion britannique (1781), a 27-gun fluyt, ex-Briton Lion captured from the British
  * Lion Couronné (1643), a 28-gun ship of the line
  * Lion Couronné (1665), a 22-gun ship of the line
  * Éminent (1647), a 46-gun ship of the line, bore the name Lion de Smaland during her career
  * Lion d'Or (1665), a 24-gun ship of the line, also originally named Lion rouge
  * Serpent (1665), a fireship, bore the name Lion d'Or during her career
  * Lion rouge (1666), a 40-gun ship of the line, possibly the captured Turkish ship Al Assad el Ahmar.
  * Lion II (1917), an armed ketch
  * Lion II (1939), an armed trawler
  
  Ships named Lionne are at French ship Lionne.
  
  