French ship Lion
# French ship Lion

At least fourteen ships of the French Navy have been named Lion:

## Ships named Lion

* Sauveur (1671), a 36-gun ship of the line, bore the name during her career
* Canadien (1676), a 42-gun ship of the line, bore the name during her career
* Écueil (1678), a 40-gun ship of the line, bore the name during her career
* French fireship Lion (1694), a fireship
* Lion (1752), a 64-gun ship of the line, lead ship of her class
* Lion (1794), a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line renamed Marat before launch
* French corvette Lion (1794), a corvette
* Cassard (1795), a Vétéran-class 74-gun ship of the line, bore the name during her career
* Lion (1804), a Téméraire-class ship of the line launched in 1804 and scuttled and burnt in 1809
* French gunboat Lion (1885), an Aspic-class gunboat
* French trawler Lion (1916), an armed trawler, ex-Brazilian Ernestina
* Lion (1918), an armed boat
* French destroyer Lion, a Guépard-class destroyer launched in 1929 and scuttled in 1942.
* Lion (1983), a Léopard-class training ship

## Other ships with similar names

* Lion britannique (1781), a 27-gun fluyt, ex-Briton Lion captured from the British
* Lion Couronné (1643), a 28-gun ship of the line
* Lion Couronné (1665), a 22-gun ship of the line
* Éminent (1647), a 46-gun ship of the line, bore the name Lion de Smaland during her career
* Lion d'Or (1665), a 24-gun ship of the line, also originally named Lion rouge
* Serpent (1665), a fireship, bore the name Lion d'Or during her career
* Lion rouge (1666), a 40-gun ship of the line, possibly the captured Turkish ship Al Assad el Ahmar.
* Lion II (1917), an armed ketch
* Lion II (1939), an armed trawler

Ships named Lionne are at French ship Lionne.

