List of ships with the name France

France is a common name for ships. The name is both the French and the English name of the country France . This in turn got its name from the Germanic tribe of the Franks , who conquered a large part of today's French national territory in the early Middle Ages and laid the origin of France with the west of France.

Ship list

designation	Ship type	Class / type	Construction year	Shipyard	Owner	period of service	Whereabouts	image
France	Freighter		1890	D. & W. Henderson & Company , Glasgow	Antoine-Dominique Bordes & Fils	1890 to 1901	Sunk on May 10, 1901
France	Passenger ship		1910	Chantiers et Ateliers de St. Nazaire , Saint-Nazaire	Compagnie Générale Transatlantique	1912 to 1932	Wrecked in 1934
France	Freighter		1911	Chantiers et Ateliers de la Gironde , Lormont		1911 to 1922	Stranded on July 12, 1922
France	Battleship	Courbet class	1912	Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire , Saint-Nazaire	French Navy	1914 to 1922	Stranded on August 26, 1922
France	Passenger ship		1960	Chantiers de l'Atlantique, Saint-Nazaire	Compagnie Générale Transatlantique	1962 to 1974	Sold in 1977, later on as Norway , scrapped in 2008
France	River cruise ship		1966	Shipyard Christof Ruthof , Mainz-Kastel	Cologne-Düsseldorf German Rhine Shipping	1966 to 1995	1998 sold as Statendam momentum
France	Reefer ship		1992	Kleven Verft , Ulsteinvik	Great White Fleet	1997 to 2000	scrapped from April 14, 2012

Web links

Commons : Ships named France  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: France  - explanations of meanings, origins of words, synonyms, translations

Footnotes

1. ^ Equasis