title: French ship Aigle
text: # French ship Aigle
  
  Ships of the French Navy have borne the name Aigle ("eagle"), honouring the bird of prey as well as the symbol of the First French Empire
  
  ## Ships named Aigle
  
  * Aigle (1692–1712), a 36-gun ship of the line
  * Aigle (1704–1710), a fireship
  * Aigle (1751–1765), a 50-gun ship of the line
  * Aigle (1780-1782), a 16-gun brig, ex-British privateer brig Eagle captured March 1780 at Saint Eustache in the Antilles. Arrived at Lorient January 1782 and listed as a corvette. HMS Duc de Chartres captured Aigle on 9 August 1782 off the American coast.
  * Aigle (1781–1784), a lugger
  * Aigle (1782), a 40-gun frigate that the British captured in 1782
  * Aigle (1783–1788), a barge
  * Aigle (1800–1805), a Téméraire-class ship of the line
  * Aigle (1805–1814), a landing craft
  * Aigle (1813–1814), a xebec
  * Aigle (1858), an aviso
  * Aigle (1858–1891), an imperial yacht
  * Aigle (1916–1919), an auxiliary patrol vessel
  * Aigle (1919–1925), a tugboat
  * Aigle (1932–1942), a destroyer, lead ship of her class
  * L'Aigle (1987–2016), a Tripartite-class minehunter
  * The imperial yacht Aigle (1858–1891) Painting by Adolphe-Hippolyte Couveley
  * The destroyer Aigle (1932–1942)
  * Aigle (1987–2016)
  