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French ship Amphitrite

Fifteen ships of the French Navy have borne the name Amphitrite, after Amphitrite, a Greek sea goddess.

Ships named Amphitrite
• , a fourth-rank 42/44-gun ship built at Rochefort by the design of Pierre Masson. She was in private service beginning 1698, when she carried a Jesuit mission to Canton under the leadership of Father Joachim Bouvet. She was recommissioned in 1704, and lost to a fire in 1713. • , a third-rank ship launched October 1700 at Dunkirk as a 50/52. It was later converted to a later 46/48, was renamed Protée in March 1705, and deleted 1722. • , launched at Bayonne and wrecked 1745, was the lead ship of the class of the same name, a 30-gun design of 1744 by Venard, with 26 × 8-pounder and 4 × 4-pounder guns. • , a • , a corvette • , a fluyt • , an aviso • , a 52-gun frigate, bore the name during her career • , a 44-gun , scuttled in 1809 during the British invasion of Martinique. • , a launched 7 November 1815 at Venice, transferred to the Austrian Navy after that year's annexation of Venice, and renamed Anfitrite and later Augusta. • , an Armide-class frigate, bore the name during the Bourbon Restoration. She was deleted in 1821. • , a seventy-four of the First French Empire, bore the name after she was razéed into a 54-gun frigate during the Bourbon Restoration. • , a lorcha built in Indochina. • was an launched in 1914 and struck in 1935. • was a launched in 1930 and sunk in 1942. == Ships with similar names ==
Ships with similar names
• a requisitioned trawler. • a requisitioned yacht, used as an auxiliary patrol boat. == See also ==
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