title: French ship Brave
text: # French ship Brave
  
  A number of ships of the French Navy have borne the name Brave. Among them:
  
  * Prince (1668), a 48-gun ship of the line, was named Brave during part of her career.
  * Brave (1671), a galley
  * Reine (1671), a 48-gun ship of the line, was named Brave during part of her career.
  * Brave (1672), a 56-gun ship of the line
  * Brave (1675), a 50-gun ship of the line
  * Triomphant (1675), a 74-gun ship of the line, was named Brave during part of her career.
  * Brave (1679), a galley
  * Brave (1683), a 60-gun ship of the line
  * Brave (1687), a galley
  * Brave (1726), an ordinary galley
  * Brave (1746), an ordinary galley
  * Duc de Bourgogne (1752), an 80-gun ship of the line, was named Brave during part of her career.
  * Brave (1762), a gunboat
  * Brave (1781), a 74-gun ship of the line
  * Brave (1793), a brig, was renamed Arrogante; the Royal Navy captured her in 1798 and she became HMS Arrogante and then HMS Insolent. She was sold in 1818.
  * Cassard (1795), a Téméraire-class ship of the line, was named Brave and Dix-août during part of her career.
  
  ## Ships with related names
  
  * Citoyen (1793), a xebec, was named Brave sans culotte during part of her career.
  * Bravoure (1795), a 40-gun Cocarde-class frigate.
  
  ## Sources and references
  
  * Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671 - 1870. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. pp. 83–84. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
  