Jean Bart (ship name)

More than a dozen ships of the French Navy in over 200 years of history bore the name of the famous privateer and admiral Jean Bart , including:

• Jean Bart , a 74-gun ship of the line launched in 1790and served from 1791 to 1809
• Jean Bart , a 270 ton18-cannon corvette capturedby the Royal Navy in1795and renamed HMS Arab ,shipwreckedoff the Glénan Islands in June 1796
• Jean Bart , a 74-gun ship of the line from 1811
• Jean Bart , a 74-gun ship of the line in service from 1820 to 1833
• Jean Bart , an 80-gun ship of the line
• Jean Bart , a 4800 t cruiser 1st class from 1886
• Jean Bart , a 23,600 t large ship of the line of the Courbet class launched in 1911, the first French capital ship class with a standard caliber (" dreadnought type")
• Jean Bart , a 50,000 t great battleship of the Richelieu class , put into service in 1949 but only 1,955 actually completed
• Jean Bart , one air defense - Frigate 1988