title: French ship Mont-Blanc
text: # French ship Mont-Blanc
  
  A number of French ships have borne the name Mont-Blanc, in honour of the Mont-Blanc mountain. Among them,
  
  * The ship of the line Mont Blanc (1793)
  * The civilian cargo ship SS Mont-Blanc (1899) of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, which when carrying ammunition during World War I blew up in the Halifax Explosion of 1917.
  