French ship Tourville

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Several ships of the French Navy have been named in honour of Anne Hilarion de Tourville. Among them:

• Tourville, a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line (1790-1833)
• San Gennaro, a Spanish 86-gun ship of the line ceded to France, bore the name from 1811 to 1816
• Tourville, a 80-gun ship of the line (1853-1872)
• A cruiser built around 1870 and struck 1901
• An unbuilt Lyon-class battleship (1914)
• The Tourville, a heavy cruiser (1928-1962)
• The Tourville (D 610), a F67 type frigate.
• A Barracuda-class submarine is scheduled to bear the name