Foudre

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Foudre (French for lightning) is the name of various ships in the French Navy:

  • Foudre , a gunboat that served 1760–1768
  • Foudre , a gunboat that served in 1795
  • Foudre , a 6-gun gunboat serving 1798–1799
  • Foudre , a gunboat serving 1804
  • Foudre , a sailing and steam frigate serving 1856–1872
  • Foudre (ship, 1896) , a torpedo boat supply ship that was converted into the world's first aircraft mother ship
  • Foudre (L646) , a Casa Grande-class dock landing ship, in the French Navy from 1952 to 1969
  • Foudre (L9011) , a Foudre-class dock landing ship , sold to Chile in 2011 and entered service there as Sargento Aldea (LSDH-91)

Foudre also stands for: