title: French ship Bretagne
text: # French ship Bretagne
  
  Six of ships of the French Navy have been named in honour of the region of Brittany.
  
  ## Ships named Bretagne
  
  * Bretagne (1766), a 110-gun three-decker ship of the line
  * Bretagne (1855), a 130-gun steam and sail three-decker
  * Ville de Bordeaux (1860), a 90-gun Ville de Nantes-class ship of the line, was renamed Bretagne when she replaced the 1855 Bretagne as a school ship.
  * Fontenoy (1858), a 90-gun Suffren-class ship of the line, was renamed Bretagne when she replaced the ex-Ville de Bordeaux as a school ship.
  * Bretagne, a battleship, lead ship of her class, sunk at Mers-el-Kebir
  * Bretagne (2016), a European multi-mission frigate (FREMM) of the French Navy
  * French submarine Saphir (S602), originally ordered as Bretagne in 1979, but renamed before commissioning in 1981.
  * Scale model of Bretagne (1766), on display at Brest naval museum
  * Bretagne (1855), painting by Jules Achille Noël, National Maritime Museum, London.
  * Layout of Bretagne, as depicted by Brassey's Naval Annual 1915
  