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Five ships of the French Navy have borne the name Bouvet in honour of François Joseph Bouvet :

  • A dispatch boat launched in 1865 and sunk near Haiti in 1871
  • A dispatch boat launched in 1876, struck in 1891
  • Bouvet, a Jauréguiberry-class battleship sunk by a mine in the Dardanelles during WWI
  • An auxiliary of the FNFL during the Second World War
  • Bouvet (D624), a T 47 class destroyer launched in 1951 and struck in 1982


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